Cretacladoides ("cladodont likeness from the Cretaceous") is a genus of chondrichthyan, possibly a falcatid, found in France and Austria.
While some of these had been described in a prior paper, the others were mounted on stubs, coated with gold and scanned with an electron microscope at the Palaeontological Department of the University of Vienna.
The labial crown face possesses either an ogive-shaped enameloid structure on the main cusp, or two converging ridges, depending on which tooth it is.
[1] Assuming that Cretacladoides is a member of the Falcatidae, a family of symmoriiform chondrichthyans that otherwise became extinct in the Carboniferous, it implies the existence of a ghost lineage.
[1] One explanation put forward by its describers is that it occupied deep-sea habitats, which allowed its line to survive the Permian–Triassic extinction event and leave very few fossils.
Ivanov considered it more likely that putative falcatid teeth described from the Early Cretaceous of Europe should be attributed to neoselachians instead.