Full reference: W. C. Sweet. 1988. The Conodonta: Morphology, Taxonomy, Paleoecology, and Evolutionary History of a Long-extinct Animal Phylum 1-212
Parent taxon: Conodonta according to S. Agematsu et al. 2007
See also Pyle and Barnes 2002 and Sweet 1988
Sister taxa: Acodina, Aldridgeodus, Aldridgeognathus, Amphigeisinidae, Ancidontus, Ancyrogondolella, Apteracontiodus, Branmehla, Chengyuania, Coleodontidae, Costiconus, Dasytodus, Diaphanodus, Dischidognathus, Dolborodina, Enantiognathus, Eofalodus, Euconodonta, Euconodonta, Euconodonta, Fahraeosodus, Falcodus, Gagievodus, Gobduntaulepis, Heterdontoides, Hindeodella andrusovi, Iowagnathus, Llandoverygnathus, Lundodus, Minimodus, Nasusgnathus, Noixodontus, Nothognathella, Omanognathus, Oslodus, Ozarkodinida, Palmatodella, Panderodontida, Pandorinella, Paraconodontida, Parvigondolella, Pollognathus, Polygnathida, Polyplacognathida, Prioniodontida, Protopanderodontida, Pseudobelodella, Rexroadus, Rhynchognathodus, Rotundoconus, Sagittodontus, Silurognathus, Spathognathodus, Tardogondolella, Tokognathus, Trichonodella, Youngquistognathus, Zygognathus
Subtaxa: Ansellidae Belodellidae Besselodus Dapsilodontidae
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Afghanistan (1 collection), Australia (113), Austria (150), Bulgaria (15), Canada (6: Nunavut, Ontario), China (3), Czechia (3), France (3), Germany (12), Greece (1), Italy (38), Mongolia (1), Morocco (121), Myanmar (1), Poland (7), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (10), Spain (1), Thailand (1), United States (58: Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Texas), Vietnam (1)
• Niagaran of Canada (2: Québec)
• Silurian to Devonian of Australia (32), Thailand (1)
• Silurian of Argentina (1), Australia (82), Austria (38), Canada (189: British Columbia, Cape Manning, Cornwallis Island, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon Territory), Czechia (22), Estonia (73), Greece (1), Greenland (51), Italy (41), Latvia (9), Lithuania (22), Malaysia (2), Morocco (2), Norway (8), Poland (13), the Russian Federation (14), Sweden (73), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (18), United States (265: California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin), Western Sahara (4)
• Aluoja of Sweden (8)
• Whiterockian of Canada (3: Northwest Territories), Norway (1), United States (8: Nevada)
• Chazyan of United States (1: Tennessee)
• Billingen of Estonia (2), the Russian Federation (1)
• Arenig of Argentina (3), China (3), Norway (1)
• Dawan of China (1)
• Ordovician to Devonian of Canada (8: Nunavut)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (14: Nunavut)
• Ordovician of Argentina (21), Australia (1), Austria (5), Canada (75: British Columbia, Cape Manning, Cornwallis Island, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Québec), China (33), Czechia (3), Denmark (1), Estonia (1), Germany (1), Greenland (3), Ireland (1), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (1), Lithuania (1), Malaysia (17), Mongolia (1), New Zealand (2), Peru (1), Poland (18), the Russian Federation (8), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Sweden (21), Thailand (13), United States (48: Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Utah)
Total: 1845 collections including 2686 occurrences