Damocles (genus)
| Damocles Temporal range: | |
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| Specimen of D. serratus housed at the ROM. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | †Symmoriiformes |
| Genus: | †Damocles Lund, 1986 |
| Type species | |
| * †Damocles serratus Lund, 1986 | |
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Damocles is a genus of chondrichthyan from the Mississippian age Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana and the city of Armagh, Northern Ireland. Two species, D. serratus and D. attenuatus, have been assigned, with D. attenuatus originally being classified as a species of the form-genus Physonemus. Members of the genus were carnivorous, and males possessed a distinctive serrated, sword-like reproductive organ which was positioned over their head.