Parent taxon: Prioniodontida according to P. C. J. Donoghue et al. 2008
See also Sepkoski 2002, Stouge and Bagnoli 1999 and Sweet 1988
Sister taxa: Acodontidae, Anticostiodus, Balognathidae, Balognathoidea, Cyrtoniodontidae, Distomodontidae, Histiodella, Multioistodontidae, Oepikodus, Oistodontidae, Paracordylodontidae, Paracordylodus, Periodontidae, Plectodinidae, Prioniodinida, Prioniodinina, Prioniodontacea, Rhipidognathidae, Sagittodontina, Strachanognathidae
Subtaxa: Phragmodus flexuosus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Silurian of Austria (1 collection)
• Whiterockian of Canada (5: British Columbia, Northwest Territories), United States (5: Nevada)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (3: Québec)
• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Australia (2), Canada (44: British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Québec), China (28), Estonia (1), the Russian Federation (24), United States (63: Alaska, Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma)
Total: 177 collections including 183 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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