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Ozarkodinida

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


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