Ozarkodinida

Ozarkodinida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Conodonta
(unranked): Prioniodontida
Order: Ozarkodinida
Dzik 1976
Families
Synonyms

Polygnathida Barskov, 1995

Ozarkodinida is an extinct conodont order.[1][2] It is part of the clade Prioniodontida, also known as the "complex conodonts". There are two suborders of Ozarkodinida : Prioniodinina and Ozarkodinina.

Elements

The feeding apparatus of ozarkodinids is composed at the front of an axial Sa element, flanked by two groups of four close-set elongate Sb and Sc elements which were inclined obliquely inwards and forwards. Above these elements lay a pair of arched and inward pointing (makellate) M elements. Behind the S-M array lay transversely oriented and bilaterally opposed (pectiniform, i.e. comb-shaped) Pb and Pa elements.[3]

References

  1. Dzik, J (1976). "Remarks on the evolution of Ordovician conodonts" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 21 (4): 395–458. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  2. Dzik, J (1991). "Evolution of the oral apparatuses in the conodont chordates" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 36 (3): 265–332. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  3. Purnell, M. A.; Donoghue, P. C. (1997). "Architecture and functional morphology of the skeletal apparatus of ozarkodinid conodonts". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 352 (1361): 1545–1564. doi:10.1098/rstb.1997.0141. PMC 1692076Freely accessible.
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