Conodonta - Proconodontida - Cordylodontidae
Full reference: C. Pander. 1856. Monographie der fossilen Fische des silurischen Systems des Russisch-Baltischen Gouvernements.
Parent taxon: Cordylodontidae according to L. J. Pyle and C. R. Barnes 2002
See also Müller and Hinz 1991, Sepkoski 2002 and Stouge 1984
Sister taxa: Cambrooistodus, Eoconodontus, Iapetognathus
Subtaxa: Cordylodus angulatus Cordylodus excavatus Cordylodus hastatus Cordylodus intermedius Cordylodus lindstromi Cordylodus proavus Cordylodus rotundatus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Silurian of Malaysia (2 collections)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Nevada)
• Billingen of Estonia (1)
• Arenig of Argentina (2), China (3)
• Arenigian of United States (1: Alaska)
• Ordovician of Argentina (9), Australia (4), Canada (12: British Columbia, Quebec, Québec), China (19), Estonia (16), Kazakhstan (1), Malaysia (2), Mexico (11), Norway (4), the Russian Federation (16), South Korea (3), Sweden (4), United States (23: Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Skullrockian of United States (1: Texas)
• Cambrian to Ordovician of Canada (1: Quebec), Norway (2), the Russian Federation (2)
• Cambrian of Australia (2), Canada (19: Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut, Nunuvat), China (26), New Zealand (1), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (3), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (11: New Mexico, New York, Vermont, Virginia)
Total: 207 collections including 356 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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