Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Parent taxon: Balognathidae according to P. C. J. Donoghue et al. 2008
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Stouge and Bagnoli 1999
Sister taxa: Amorphognathus, Birksfeldia, Complexodus, Icriodella, Lenodus, Pranognathus, Prioniodus, Promissum, Pterospathodus, Rhodesognathus, Trapezognathus, Euprioniodina, Bryantodus, Stiptognathus, Eoneoprioniodus, Subprioniodus, Reutterodus, Tetraprioniodus, Lonchodus, Lonchodina, Synprioniodina, Multidentodus
Subtaxa: Baltoniodus medius Baltoniodus variabilis
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Uhaku of the Russian Federation (1 collection)
• Aluoja of Sweden (8)
• Volkhov of Estonia (12), the Russian Federation (9), Sweden (7)
• Dawan of China (2)
• Arenig of China (12)
• Ordovician of Argentina (13), Australia (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (23), Estonia (3), Iran (2), Lithuania (1), Malaysia (5), New Zealand (4), Norway (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (16), Sweden (10), Thailand (3)
Total: 136 collections including 155 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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