Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Distomodontidae
Synonym: Hadrognathus Walliser 1964
Full reference: E. B. Branson and C. C. Branson. 1947. Lower Silurian Conodonts from Kentucky. Journal of Paleontology 21(6):549-556
Parent taxon: Distomodontidae according to L. J. Pyle and C. R. Barnes 2002
See also Aldridge 1972, Danielsen and Over 2016, Sepkoski 2002 and Sweet 1988
Sister taxa: Coryssognathus, Rotundacodina
Subtaxa: Distomodus combinatus Distomodus kentuckyensis Distomodus staurognathoides
Type: Distomodus kentuckyensis
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Niagaran of Canada (3: Québec collections)
• Silurian of Argentina (1), Australia (1), Austria (1), Canada (86: British Columbia, Cape Manning, Cornwallis Island, Manitoba, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (2), Estonia (21), Greenland (8), Ireland (1), Jordan (1), Latvia (9), Mongolia (9), Norway (9), Poland (6), the Russian Federation (14), Sweden (5), the United Kingdom (2), United States (106: Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Arenig of United States (1: Montana)
• Ordovician to Devonian of Canada (1: Nunavut)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (4: Nunavut, Québec)
• Ordovician of Canada (1: Québec), Malaysia (1), Sweden (1), United States (4: Nevada, Oklahoma)
Total: 298 collections including 373 occurrences
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