Conodonta - Ozarkodinida - Pterospathodontidae
Alternative spelling: Aulocognathus
Synonym: Neospathognathodus Nicoll and Rexroad 1968
Full reference: H. Mostler. 1967. Conodonten aus dem tieferen Silur der Kitzbühler Alpen (Tirol). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 71:295-303
Parent taxon: Pterospathodontidae according to W. C. Sweet 1988
See also Cooper 1977, Musteikis and Cocks 2004 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Apsidognathus, Astropentagnathus, Carniodus, Galerodus, Icriognathus, Johnognathus, Polygnathoides
Subtaxa: Aulacognathus bullatus Aulacognathus latus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Niagaran of Canada (1: Québec collection)
• Silurian of Australia (2), Canada (13: Cape Manning, Cornwallis Island, Manitoba, Nunavut), China (3), Estonia (3), Greenland (17), the Russian Federation (1), United States (27: California, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Utah)
• Ordovician to Devonian of Canada (2: Nunavut)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: Nunavut)
Total: 70 collections including 88 occurrences
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