Conodonta - Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Alternative combinations: Drepanodus suberectus, Oistodus suberectus
Synonyms: Distacodus incurvatus Hinde 1879, Oistodus giganteus Stauffer 1936
Belongs to Drepanoistodus according to H. A. Armstrong 1990
See also Ferretti and Schönlaub 2001 and Igo and Koike 1967
Sister taxa: Drepanoistodus amoenus, Drepanoistodus basiovalis, Drepanoistodus bellburnensis, Drepanoistodus costatus, Drepanoistodus deltifer, Drepanoistodus forceps, Drepanoistodus latus, Drepanoistodus pitjanti, Drepanoistodus tablepointensis, Drepanoistodus venustus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Silurian of Canada (2: Québec collections), Malaysia (1)
• Whiterockian of United States (3: Nevada)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (20: Nunavut, Québec)
• Ordovician of Austria (1), Canada (99: British Columbia, Cape Manning, Cornwallis Island, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (25), Estonia (1), Greenland (9), Ireland (1), Poland (5), the Russian Federation (7), Sweden (10), United States (83: Alaska, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Wyoming)
• Cambrian of China (2)
Total: 269 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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