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)
• Carboniferous of India (1), Malaysia (1), Mexico (1), United States (25: California, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, 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 Canada (133: British Columbia, Cape Manning, Cornwallis Island, Manitoba, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon), China (8), the Czech Republic (2), Estonia (6), Greece (3), Greenland (31), Ireland (1), Malaysia (3), Mongolia (2), Morocco (3), Norway (7), the Russian Federation (13), Sweden (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (108: California, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Utah, Wisconsin), Western Sahara (5)
• Uhaku of the Russian Federation (1)
• Aluoja of Sweden (8)
• Whiterockian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories), United States (5: Nevada)
• Volkhov of Estonia (12), the Russian Federation (9), Sweden (7)
• Arenig of Argentina (2), China (14), Norway (3)
• Arenigian of United States (1: Alaska)
• Dawan of China (6)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (20: Nunavut, Québec)
• Ordovician to Devonian of Canada (1: Nunavut)
• Ordovician of Argentina (21), Australia (1), Austria (5), Canada (44: British Columbia, Cornwallis Island, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Québec), China (40), the Czech Republic (3), Estonia (10), France (1), Germany (2), Iran (6), Ireland (1), Italy (1), Lithuania (1), Malaysia (7), Mongolia (2), New Zealand (5), Norway (2), Peru (1), Poland (17), the Russian Federation (46), South Africa (1), Spain (4), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Sweden (28), Thailand (4), United States (44: Colorado, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Wyoming)
• Tremadoc of Kazakhstan (1)
Total: 815 collections including 1150 occurrences