Cryptotaxidae is an extinct family of

conodont Conodonts (Greek ''kōnos'', "cone", + ''odont'', "tooth") are an extinct group of agnathan (jawless) vertebrates resembling eels, classified in the class Conodonta. For many years, they were known only from their tooth-like oral elements, which ...

s in the order

Ozarkodinida Ozarkodinida is an extinct conodont order. It is part of the clade Prioniodontida, also known as the "complex conodonts". Name Ozarkodinida is named after the Ozark Mountains of Missouri Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern ...

. It includes the extinct genus '' Cryptotaxis''.

Bibliography

* Gilbert Klapper et Graeme M. Philip, « Devonian Conodont Apparatuses and their Vicarious Skeletal Elements », Lethaia, Wiley-Blackwell, vol. 4, no 4, octobre 1971, p. 429-452 ( et , , ) * Cassiane N. Cardoso, Javier Sanz-López, Silvia Blanco-Ferrera, Valesca B. Lemos et Ana K. Scomazzon, « Frasnian conodonts at high palaeolatitude (Amazonas Basin, north Brazil) », Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Elsevier, vol. 418, janvier 2015, p. 57-64 ( et , , , )

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