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Taphrognathus

Taphrognathus
Temporal range: Mississippian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Conodonta
(unranked): Prioniodontida
Order: Ozarkodinida
Superfamily: Polygnathacea
Family: Cavusgnathidae
Genus: Taphrognathus
Branson and Mehl, 1941
Species
  • Taphrognathus transatlanticus
  • Taphrognathus varians

Taphrognathus is an extinct genus of conodonts from the Dinantian (Lower Carboniferous).

In 1947 the name Taphrognathus was also used to describe a prehistoric amphibian from the Middle Triassic of Arizona, but the amphibian was renamed Hadrokkosaurus in 1957 after the synonymy was realized.


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