Taphrognathus
Extinct genus of jawless fishes
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Taphrognathus is an extinct genus of conodonts from the Dinantian (Lower Carboniferous).[2]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Infraphylum: | Agnatha |
| Class: | †Conodonta |
| Order: | †Ozarkodinida |
| Family: | †Cavusgnathidae |
| Genus: | †Taphrognathus Branson and Mehl, 1941[1] |
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Synonyms
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.[3]
