Ozarkodinida

Ozarkodinida is an extinct conodont order.^[1][2] It is part of the clade Prioniodontida, also known as the "complex conodonts".

Ozarkodinida
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	†Conodonta
Clade:	†Prioniodontida
Order:	†Ozarkodinida Dzik 1976
Families
Anchignathodontidae Clark, 1972 Cavusgnathidae Austin & Rhodes, 1981 Cryptotaxidae Klapper & Philip, 1971 Elictognathidae Austin & Rhodes, 1981 Gnathodontidae Sweet, 1988 Idiognathodontidae Harris & Hollingsworth, 1933 Kockelellidae Klapper, 1981 Mestognathidae Austin & Rhodes, 1981 Palmatolepidae Sweet, 1988 Polygnathidae Bassler, 1925 Pterospathodontidae Cooper, 1977 Spathognathodontidae Hass, 1959 Sweetognathidae Ritter, 1986
Synonyms
Polygnathida Barskov, 1995

Name

Ozarkodinida is named after the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, United States.

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 1692076.

External links

• Data related to Ozarkodinida at Wikispecies
• "Ozarkodinida". The Encyclopedia of Life.