Polygnathacea
{{Short description|Extinct superfamily of jawless fish}}
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| image_caption = {{hidden|10–11. Polygnathus sp.
(see caption)|10–14. Conodonts from the basal 20 cm of the Loyalhanna Limestone Member of the Mauch Chunk Formation, Keystone quarry, Pa. (93RS–79a), and Westernport, Md. (93RS–67). Note the highly abraded and reworked aeolian forms.
10. Polygnathus sp., Pa element, upper view, reworked Late Devonian to Early Mississippian morphotype, 93RS–79a, X140.
11. Polygnathus sp., Pa element, upper view, reworked Late Devonian to Early Mississippian morphotype, 93RS–67, X140.}}
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| taxon = Polygnathacea
| authority = Bassler, 1925Classification and stratigraphic use of the conodonts. RS Bassler - Geological Society of America Bulletin, 1925
| subdivision_ranks = Families
| subdivision =
- †Cavusgnathidae Clark et al., 1981
- †Palmatolepidae Müller, 1956
- †Polygnathidae Bassler, 1925
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}}
Polygnathacea is an extinct superfamily of conodonts.
Families
Families are,
- †Cavusgnathidae Clark et al., 1981
- †Palmatolepidae Müller, 1956
- †Polygnathidae Bassler, 1925
References
{{Reflist}}
- Ontogeny and trophic types of some Tournaisian Polygnathacea (Conodonta). AV Zhuravlev - Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 1995
- Variation in the outline and distribution of epithelial cell imprints on the surface of polygnathacean conodont elements. AV Zhuravlev - Lethaia, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
- The architecture and function of Carboniferous polygnathacean conodont apparatuses. RJ Aldridge, MP Smith, RD Norby… - Palaeobiology of …, 1987 - Halsted Press
External links
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Category:Vertebrate superfamilies
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