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Prioniodontida

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
†Conodonta

Phylum
  
Chordata

Clade
  
†Euconodonta

Clade
  
†Prioniodontida Dzik 1976

Prioniodontida, also known as the "complex conodonts", is a large clade of conodonts that includes two major evolutionary grades; the Prioniodinina and the Ozarkodinina. It includes many of the more famous conodonts, such as the giant ordovician Promissum (Prioniodinina) from the Soom Shale and the Carboniferous specimens from the Granton Shrimp bed (Ozarkodinina). They are euconodonts, in that their elements are composed of two layers; the crown and the basal body, and are assumed to be a clade.

Phylogeny

This is a recent cladogram of the Prioniodontida, simplified from Donoghue et al., (2008).

References

Prioniodontida Wikipedia