Parent taxon: Conodonta according to G. A. Stepanova 1990
See also Clark et al. 1981
Sister taxa: Acodina, Aldridgeodus, Aldridgeognathus, Amphigeisinidae, Ancidontus, Ancyrogondolella, Apteracontiodus, Belodellida, Bengtsonella, Branmehla, Chengyuania, Coleodontidae, Costiconus, Dasytodus, Diaphanodus, Dischidognathus, Distacodidae, Enantiognathus, Euconodonta, Euconodonta, Euconodonta, Fahraeosodus, Falcodus, Gagievodus, Gobduntaulepis, Heterdontoides, Hindeodella andrusovi, Iowagnathus, Llandoverygnathus, Lundodus, Minimodus, Nasusgnathus, Noixodontus, Omanognathus, Oslodus, Ozarkodinida, Palmatodella, Panderodontida, Pandorinella, Paraconodontida, Parvigondolella, Polygnathida, Polyplacognathida, Prioniodontida, Protopanderodontida, Pseudobelodella, Rexroadus, Rhynchognathodus, Rotundoconus, Sagittodontus, Scandodus, Silurognathus, Tardogondolella, Trichonodella, Youngquistognathus, Zygognathus
Subtaxa: Spathognathodus asymmetricus Spathognathodus culminidirectus Spathognathodus dubius Spathognathodus fundamentus Spathognathodus optimus Spathognathodus stygius Spathognathodus transitans
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Greece (1 collection), Serbia and Montenegro (1)
• Virgilian of United States (1: New Mexico)
• Osagean of United States (6: California, Ohio)
• Carboniferous of China (9), Greece (1), the United Kingdom (17), United States (13: Arizona, California, Missouri, Montana, Pennsylvania, Virginia)
• Mississippian of Afghanistan (1), China (1), United States (1: Iowa)
• Devonian to Triassic of Greece (1)
• Devonian of Australia (1), Austria (2), Belgium (11), Canada (1: Yukon), China (10), the Czech Republic (5), Germany (2), Greece (4), Italy (2), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), United States (1: California), Vietnam (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Thailand (1)
• Niagaran of United States (1: Indiana)
• Silurian of Canada (1: Yukon), China (3), Greece (1), Jordan (1), Malaysia (3), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: California, Missouri, Utah, Wisconsin), Western Sahara (5)
• Ordovician of Canada (2: Québec), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 127 collections including 143 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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