Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Synonyms: Prioniodidae Ulrich and Bassler 1926, Prioniodontidae Ulrich and Bassler 1926
Parent taxon: Prioniodontida according to A. Mestre and S. Heredia 2020
See also Clark et al. 1981, Donoghue et al. 2008, Gunnell 1933, Pyle and Barnes 2002, Stouge and Bagnoli 1999 and Sweet 1988
Sister taxa: Acodontidae, Anticostiodus, Balognathoidea, Cyrtoniodontidae, Distomodontidae, Histiodella, Multioistodontidae, Oepikodus, Oistodontidae, Paracordylodontidae, Paracordylodus, Periodontidae, Phragmodus, Plectodinidae, Prioniodinida, Prioniodinina, Prioniodontacea, Rhipidognathidae, Sagittodontina, Strachanognathidae
Subtaxa: Amorphognathus Baltoniodus Birksfeldia Bryantodus Complexodus Eoneoprioniodus Euprioniodina Icriodella Lenodus Lonchodina Lonchodus Multidentodus Pranognathus Prioniodus Promissum Pterospathodus Reutterodus Rhodesognathus Stiptognathus Subprioniodus Synprioniodina Tetraprioniodus Trapezognathus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2 collections), China (1), East Timor (3), Greece (16), India (1), Israel (1), Serbia and Montenegro (7), Slovenia (1), United States (1: Nevada)
• Virgilian of United States (1: New Mexico)
• Desmoinesian of United States (1: Iowa)
• Pennsylvanian of United States (1: New Mexico)
• Chesterian of United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Osagean of United States (4: California)
• Mississippian of United States (1: Iowa)
• Carboniferous of India (1), Malaysia (1), Mexico (1), United States (16: California, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, Virginia)
• Devonian to Triassic of Greece (1)
• Devonian of Australia (1), Belgium (1), Canada (1: Ontario), China (9), the Czech Republic (4), France (3), Greece (1), Italy (1), Morocco (3), Myanmar (1), United States (1: New York), Vietnam (2), Western Sahara (2)
• Niagaran of Canada (2: Québec)
• Silurian of Austria (1), Canada (134: British Columbia, Cape Manning, Cornwallis Island, Manitoba, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon), China (8), the Czech Republic (2), Estonia (21), Greece (3), Greenland (31), Ireland (1), Malaysia (3), Mongolia (2), Morocco (3), Norway (7), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (13), Sweden (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (113: California, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Utah, Wisconsin), Western Sahara (5)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (20: Nunavut, Québec)
• Ordovician to Devonian of Canada (5: Nunavut)
• Ordovician of Argentina (21), Australia (1), Austria (5), Canada (43: British Columbia, Cornwallis Island, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Québec), China (40), the Czech Republic (3), Estonia (22), France (1), Germany (2), Iran (6), Ireland (1), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (1), Lithuania (1), Malaysia (7), Mongolia (2), New Zealand (5), Norway (2), Peru (1), Poland (17), the Russian Federation (42), South Africa (1), Spain (4), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Sweden (43), Thailand (4), United States (44: Colorado, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Wyoming)
• Whiterockian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories), United States (5: Nevada)
• Dawan of China (6)
• Arenig of Argentina (2), China (14), Norway (3)
• Arenigian of United States (1: Alaska)
Total: 830 collections including 1159 occurrences