Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Parent taxon: Prioniodidae according to F. H. Gunnell 1933
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Amorphognathus, Baltoniodus, Birksfeldia, Complexodus, Icriodella, Lenodus, Pranognathus, Prioniodus, Promissum, Pterospathodus, Rhodesognathus, Trapezognathus, Bryantodus, Subprioniodus, Lonchodus, Eoneoprioniodus, Reutterodus, Synprioniodina, Stiptognathus, Euprioniodina, Tetraprioniodus, Multidentodus
Subtaxa: Lonchodina acutula Lonchodina arcuata Lonchodina brevipennata Lonchodina cristagalli Lonchodina detorta Lonchodina greilingi Lonchodina robusta Lonchodina walliseri
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2 collections), China (1), Greece (16), India (1), Israel (1), Serbia (7), Slovenia (1), Timor-Leste (3), United States (1: Nevada)
• Namurian of Malaysia (3)
• Carboniferous of India (1), United States (12: California, Colorado, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, Virginia, West Virginia)
• Devonian to Triassic of Greece (1)
• Devonian of Australia (1), Bulgaria (1), China (1), Czechia (4), Greece (1), Morocco (3), United States (1: Iowa), Western Sahara (2)
• Silurian of China (1), Czechia (2), Greece (3), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (4), the United Kingdom (1), United States (26: California, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri), Western Sahara (4)
Total: 106 collections including 158 occurrences
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