Conodonta - Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
Parent taxon: Prioniodidae according to F. H. Gunnell 1933
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Amorphognathus, Baltoniodus, Birksfeldia, Complexodus, Icriodella, Lenodus, Pranognathus, Prioniodus, Promissum, Pterospathodus, Rhodesognathus, Trapezognathus, Bryantodus, Subprioniodus, Euprioniodina, Synprioniodina, Stiptognathus, Lonchodus, Tetraprioniodus, Reutterodus, Multidentodus, Eoneoprioniodus
Subtaxa: Lonchodina acutula Lonchodina arcuata Lonchodina brevipennata Lonchodina detorta Lonchodina greilingi Lonchodina robusta Lonchodina walliseri
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2 collections), China (1), East Timor (3), Greece (16), India (1), Israel (1), Serbia and Montenegro (7), Slovenia (1), United States (1: Nevada)
• Carboniferous of India (1), United States (5: California, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma)
• Devonian to Triassic of Greece (1)
• Devonian of Australia (1), China (1), the Czech Republic (3), Greece (1), Morocco (3), Western Sahara (2)
• Silurian of China (1), the Czech Republic (2), Greece (3), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (4), the United Kingdom (1), United States (26: California, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri), Western Sahara (4)
Total: 93 collections including 135 occurrences
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