Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Synonym: Balognathus Rhodes 1953
Parent taxon: Balognathidae according to P. C. J. Donoghue et al. 2008
See also Cooper 1977, Sepkoski 2002 and Stouge and Bagnoli 1999
Sister taxa: Baltoniodus, Birksfeldia, Complexodus, Icriodella, Lenodus, Pranognathus, Prioniodus, Promissum, Pterospathodus, Rhodesognathus, Trapezognathus, Euprioniodina, Subprioniodus, Tetraprioniodus, Reutterodus, Stiptognathus, Synprioniodina, Multidentodus, Lonchodina, Lonchodus, Eoneoprioniodus, Bryantodus
Subtaxa: Amorphognathus complicatus Amorphognathus duftonus Amorphognathus ordovicicus Amorphognathus superbus Amorphognathus ventilatus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Greece (1 collection)
• Silurian of Greece (1), Malaysia (1)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (12: Nunavut, Québec)
• Ordovician of Argentina (2), Austria (5), Canada (37: British Columbia, Cornwallis Island, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Québec), China (12), the Czech Republic (3), Estonia (1), France (1), Germany (1), Iran (1), Ireland (1), Italy (1), Malaysia (2), Mongolia (1), Poland (17), the Russian Federation (7), Spain (3), Sweden (23), Thailand (1), United States (37: Colorado, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma)
• Arenig of China (2)
Total: 173 collections including 190 occurrences
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