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Axonophora is an extinct suborder of
graptolite Graptolites are a group of colonial animals, members of the subclass Graptolithina within the class Pterobranchia. These filter-feeding organisms are known chiefly from fossils found from the Middle Cambrian ( Miaolingian, Wuliuan) through t ...
s. It primarily consists of the biserial graptolites, and also includes the retiolitids and monograptids.


Taxonomy

Taxonomy of Axonophora from Maletz (2014): *Infraorder † Diplograptina Lapworth, 1880e **Family † Diplograptidae Lapworth, 1873b ***Subfamily † Diplograptinae Lapworth, 1873b ***Subfamily † Orthograptinae Mitchell, 1987 **Family † Lasiograptidae Lapworth, 1880e **Family † Climacograptidae Frech, 1897 **Family † Dicranograptidae Lapworth, 1873b ***Subfamily † Dicranograptinae Lapworth, 1873b ***Subfamily † Nemagraptinae Lapworth, 1873 *Infraorder † Neograptina Štorch et al., 2011 **(Unranked) ***Family † Normalograptidae Štorch & Serpagli, 1993 ***Family † Neodiplograptidae Melchin et al., 2011 ****Subfamily † Neodiplograptinae Melchin et al. 2011 ****Subfamily † Petalolithinae Bulman, 1955 **Superfamily † Retiolitoidea Lapworth, 1873b ***Family † Retiolitidae Lapworth, 1873b (retiolitids) ****Subfamily † Retiolitinae Lapworth, 1873 ****Subfamily † Plectograptinae Bouček & Münch, 1952 **Superfamily † Monograptoidea Lapworth, 1873 ***Family † Dimorphograptidae Elles & Wood, 1908 ***Family †
Monograptidae Monograptidae is an extinct family of graptolites of the order Graptoloidea. Monograptids have only one row of thecae per stipe (mycology), stipe (stem, branch), unlike the biserial graptolites which have two opposing rows of thecae per stipe. ...
Lapworth, 1873b (monograptids; possibly several subfamilies)


References

Graptolites Prehistoric hemichordates Animal suborders {{Hemichordate-stub