Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Full reference: O. H. Walliser. 1964. Conodonten des Silurs. Abhandlungen des Hessischen Landesamtes für Bodenforschung 41:1-106
Parent taxon: Balognathidae according to P. C. J. Donoghue et al. 2008
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Sweet 1988
Sister taxa: Amorphognathus, Baltoniodus, Birksfeldia, Complexodus, Icriodella, Lenodus, Pranognathus, Prioniodus, Promissum, Rhodesognathus, Trapezognathus, Synprioniodina, Bryantodus, Multidentodus, Stiptognathus, Euprioniodina, Subprioniodus, Eoneoprioniodus, Lonchodus, Lonchodina, Reutterodus, Tetraprioniodus
Subtaxa: Pterospathodus amorphognathoides Pterospathodus celloni Pterospathodus eopennatus Pterospathodus pennatus Pterospathodus rhodesi
Type: Pterospathodus amorphognathoides
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Greece (1 collection)
• Niagaran of Canada (2: Québec)
• Silurian of Austria (1), Canada (67: British Columbia, Cape Manning, Cornwallis Island, Manitoba, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (7), Estonia (16), Greece (2), Greenland (31), Morocco (1), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (3), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (95: California, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Utah)
• Ordovician to Devonian of Canada (5: Nunavut)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (8: Nunavut)
Total: 247 collections including 285 occurrences
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