Cavusgnathus
Extinct genus of jawless fishes
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Cavusgnathus is an extinct genus of conodonts.
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| Pa elements, lateral view, X140 2, 5: Cavusgnathus unicornis 6, 7, 14 Cavusgnathus sp. see detail
2. gamma morphotype, from the Deer Valley Member of the Mauch Chunk Formation, Keystone quarry, Pa. 5. alpha morphotype, and 6, 7. from the uppermost Loyalhanna Limestone Member of the Mauch Chunk Formation, Keystone quarry, Pa. 14. 93RS–67, from the basal 20 cm of the Loyalhanna Limestone Member of the Mauch Chunk Formation, Keystone quarry, Pa. (93RS–79a), and Westernport, Md. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Infraphylum: | Agnatha |
| Class: | †Conodonta |
| Order: | †Ozarkodinida |
| Superfamily: | †Polygnathacea |
| Genus: | †Cavusgnathus Harris and Hollingsworth, 1933[1] |
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Glen K. Merrill stated in 1963 that "conodont workers have considered Idiognathoides to be a junior synonym of Polygnathodella but it now proves to be a junior synonym of Cavusgnathus. Polygnathodella and Cavusgnathus are shown to form a transitional series."[2]
