Kladognathus

Kladognathus
Kladognathus sp, all X140. 1. Sa element, posterior view. 3, 4. Sa element, lateral views. 13. M element, lateral views, 93RS–67. See detail  1. Conodonts from the Deer Valley Member of the Mauch Chunk Formation, Keystone quarry, Pa. This collection (93RS–79c) is from the lower 10 cm of the Deer Valley Member. Note the nonabraded, although slightly broken, conodont elements of the high-energy oolitic marine facies of the Deer Valley Member. 3–4. Conodonts from the uppermost Loyalhanna Limestone Member of the Mauch Chunk Formation, Keystone quarry, Pa. This collection (93RS–79b) is from the upper 10 cm of the Loyalhanna Member. Note the highly abraded and reworked aeolian forms. 13. 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.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	†Conodonta
Order:	†Prioniodontida
Family:	†Coleodontidae
Genus:	†Kladognathus Rexroad 1958
Species
†Kladognathus complectens †Kladognathus primus †Kladognathus tenuis
Synonyms
†Cladognathodus Rexroad and Collinson, 1961

Kladognathus is an extinct genus of conodonts.

References

• The Kladognathus Apparatus (Conodonta, Carboniferous): Homologies with Ozarkodinids, and the Prioniodinid Bauplan. Mark A. Purnell, Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 67, No. 5 (Sep., 1993), pages 875-882 (Stable URL)
• Kladognathus Rexroad, 1958, not Cladognathodus Rexroad and Collinson, 1961. Michael C. Mound, Micropaleontology, July 1965, volume 11, issue 3 (abstract)

External links

• Kladognathus at fossilworks.org (retrieved 14 July 2016)