Scaliognathus

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

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{{taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Tournaisian}}

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Chordata

| classis = †Conodonta

| ordo = †Ozarkodinida

| familia =

| genus = †Scaliognathus

| genus_authority = Branson & Mehl, 1941

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• †Scaliognathus anchoralis

| synonyms =

}}

Scaliognathus is an extinct genus of conodonts.The origin and evolution of the middle Dinantian conodont genera Doliognathus, Dollymae, Scaliognathus, and Staurognathus, and related forms. Ronald L. Austin and Eric Groessens, Annales de la Société géologique de Belgique [En ligne], Volume 95 (1972), Fascicule 2, 229 - 238 ([http://popups.ulg.ac.be/0037-9395/index.php?id=5708 URL], retrieved 24 April 2016)Taxonomy and phylogeny of Scaliognathus Branson & Mehl, 1941 (Conodonta, Lower Carboniferous). HR Lane and W Ziegler, Senckenbergiana lethaea, 1983

The Tournaisian, the oldest age of the Mississippian contains eight conodont biozones, one of which is the zone of Gnathodus pseudosemiglaber and Scaliognathus anchoralis.