Conodonta - Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
"Pandorina was preoccupied by J. B. Bory, 1826, and is to be replaced by Pandorinellina, n. name. Wilbert Hass has informed us that he had plans to use it in his forthcoming contribution to the Treatise of Invertebrate Paleontology, and the name should be attributed to him."
Full reference: K. J. Müller and E. M. Müller. 1957. Early Upper Devonian (Independence) Conodonts from Iowa, Part I. Journal of Paleontology 31(6):1069-1108
Parent taxon: Polygnathidae according to P. C. J. Donoghue et al. 2008
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Ancyrodella, Ancyrodelloides, Ancyrognathus, Ancyrolepis, Avignathus, Bispathodus, Cavusgnathus, Hemilistrona, Kimognathus, Klapperina, Linguipolygnathus, Masaraella, Mehlina, Neopolygnathus, Nodognathus, Palmatolepinae, Polygnathus, Polylophodonta, Pseudopolygnathus, Rhachistognathus, Scaphignathus, Schmidtognathus, Siphonodella, Synclydagnathus, Zieglerina
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (62 collections), Austria (15), Bulgaria (3), the Czech Republic (6), Iran (1), Italy (2), Mongolia (3), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (33), United States (25: Alaska, Nevada)
• Silurian to Devonian of Australia (1)
Total: 153 collections including 190 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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