Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Parent taxon: Prioniodidae according to F. H. Gunnell 1933
Sister taxa: Amorphognathus, Baltoniodus, Birksfeldia, Complexodus, Icriodella, Lenodus, Pranognathus, Prioniodus, Promissum, Pterospathodus, Rhodesognathus, Trapezognathus, Bryantodus, Eoneoprioniodus, Euprioniodina, Stiptognathus, Multidentodus, Tetraprioniodus, Lonchodus, Lonchodina, Reutterodus, Subprioniodus
Subtaxa: Synprioniodina bicurvata
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (4: Missouri, New Mexico, Virginia collections)
• Devonian to Triassic of Greece (1)
• Devonian of Belgium (1), Canada (1: Ontario), China (2), Czechia (3), Greece (1), Italy (1), Morocco (3), Myanmar (1), Vietnam (2)
• Silurian of Canada (1: Yukon), Czechia (2), Estonia (1), Greece (1), Malaysia (1), Morocco (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (11: California, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio), Western Sahara (4)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Nevada)
Total: 45 collections including 47 occurrences
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