Diplognathodus
Extinct genus of jawless fishes
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Diplognathodus is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Anchignathodontidae.[2][3] Specimens are found in Carboniferous[4] and Permian formations.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Infraphylum: | Agnatha |
| Class: | †Conodonta |
| Order: | †Ozarkodinida |
| Family: | †Anchignathodontidae |
| Genus: | †Diplognathodus Kozur & Merrill in Kozur (1975)[1] |
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The genus Sweetognathus originated in the earliest Permian as S. expansus from Diplognathodus edentulus.[5]
Diplognathodus ellesmerensis has been proposed as a marker of the Moscovian, in the Pennsylvanian age of the Carboniferous.
