Ellisoniidae is an extinct family of
conodont
Conodonts, are an extinct group of marine jawless vertebrates belonging to the class Conodonta (from Ancient Greek κῶνος (''kōnos''), meaning " cone", and ὀδούς (''odoús''), meaning "tooth"). They are primarily known from their hard ...
s, a kind of primitive
chordate
A chordate ( ) is a bilaterian animal belonging to the phylum Chordata ( ). All chordates possess, at some point during their larval or adult stages, five distinctive physical characteristics ( synapomorphies) that distinguish them from ot ...
.
Genera
Genera are:
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Ellisonia''
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Foliella''
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Hadrodontina''
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Parapachycladina''
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Parafurnishius''
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Stepanovites''
References
External links
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Ellisoniidaeat
fossilworks
Fossilworks was a portal which provides query, download, and analysis tools to facilitate access to the Paleobiology Database, a large relational database assembled by hundreds of paleontologists from around the world.
History
Fossilworks was cr ...
.org (retrieved 22 April 2016)
Conodont families
Prioniodinida
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