Cryptotaxis

{{Short description|Extinct genus of jawless fishes}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Famennian}}

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Chordata

| classis = †Conodonta

| unranked_ordo = †Prioniodontida

| ordo = †Ozarkodinida

| familia = †Cryptotaxidae

| genus = †Cryptotaxis

| genus_authority = Klapper & Philip 1971Devonian conodont apparatuses and their vicarious skeletal elements. G Klapper and GM Philip, Lethaia, Volume 4, Issue 4, pages 429–452, October 1971, {{doi|10.1111/j.1502-3931.1971.tb01865.x}}

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = †Cryptotaxis culminidirecta

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Cryptotaxis is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Cryptotaxidae from the Famennian (Upper Devonian).{{cite book|title=Acta Geologica Polonica, Volume 55, Pages 211-466|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iz4cAQAAMAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Museum Ziemi|language=English |page=211|quote=Devonian conodonts (Cryptotaxis sp.) are so far known only from the Frasnian - middle Famennian in the Solimoes Basin, northwestern Brazil (Hunicken & al. 1988).}}