Decoriconus Cooper 1976 (conodont)

Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Strachanognathidae

Full reference: B. J. Cooper. 1976. Multielement Conodonts from the St. Clair Limestone (Silurian) of Southern Illinois. Journal of Paleontology 50(2):205-217

Parent taxon: Strachanognathidae according to J. Dzik 1994

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Scabbardella, Strachanognathus

Subtaxa: Decoriconus fragilis Decoriconus minutus

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Devonian of Australia (6 collections), Austria (32), Morocco (9), United States (1: Texas)

• Silurian to Devonian of Australia (8)

• Silurian of Australia (20), Austria (2), Canada (41: British Columbia, Cape Manning, Cornwallis Island, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), Estonia (52), Greenland (9), Latvia (4), Lithuania (16), Morocco (2), Poland (5), the Russian Federation (8), Sweden (45), the United Kingdom (5), United States (133: Illinois, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin)

• Aluoja of Sweden (7)

• Volkhov of Estonia (10), the Russian Federation (3)

• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: Nunavut)

• Ordovician to Devonian of Canada (1: Nunavut)

• Ordovician of Argentina (2), Austria (4), Canada (17: Cornwallis Island, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Québec), China (1), Estonia (5), Ireland (1), the Russian Federation (5), Sweden (8), United States (3: Nevada, Oklahoma)

Total: 466 collections each including a single occurrence

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