Ozarkodinida | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | †Conodonta |
(unranked): | †Prioniodontida |
Order: |
†Ozarkodinida Dzik 1976 |
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Synonyms | |
Polygnathida Barskov, 1995 |
Polygnathida Barskov, 1995
Ozarkodinida is an extinct conodont order. It is part of the clade Prioniodontida, also known as the "complex conodonts". There are two suborders of Ozarkodinida : Prioniodinina and Ozarkodinina.
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.