Conodonta - Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Parent taxon: Drepanoistodontidae according to L. J. Pyle and C. R. Barnes 2002
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Stouge 1984
Sister taxa: Laurentoscandodus, Nordiodus, Paltodus, Paroistodus, Venoistodus
Subtaxa: Drepanoistodus amoenus Drepanoistodus basiovalis Drepanoistodus bellburnensis Drepanoistodus costatus Drepanoistodus deltifer Drepanoistodus forceps Drepanoistodus latus Drepanoistodus pitjanti Drepanoistodus suberectus Drepanoistodus tablepointensis Drepanoistodus venustus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Silurian of Canada (2: Québec collections), Malaysia (1)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (20: Nunavut, Québec)
• Ordovician of Argentina (27), Australia (6), Austria (1), Canada (154: British Columbia, Cape Manning, Cornwallis Island, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (62), Estonia (27), Germany (1), Greenland (9), Iran (5), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (3), Lithuania (1), Malaysia (5), New Zealand (3), Norway (2), Peru (1), Poland (7), the Russian Federation (37), South Korea (3), Sweden (35), United States (93: Alaska, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Whiterockian of Canada (5: British Columbia, Northwest Territories), United States (3: Nevada)
• Arenigian of United States (1: Alaska)
• Arenig of Argentina (2), Australia (1), China (11), the Russian Federation (1)
• Cassinian of Canada (1: Quebec), the United Kingdom (1)
• Dawan of China (1)
• Cambrian of Canada (4: Alberta, Nunuvat), China (2), Norway (1)
Total: 540 collections including 647 occurrences
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