Full reference: W. C. Sweet. 1988. The Conodonta: Morphology, Taxonomy, Paleoecology, and Evolutionary History of a Long-extinct Animal Phylum 1-212
Parent taxon: Euconodonta according to J. Carlorosi et al. 2019
See also Pyle and Barnes 2002 and Sweet 1988
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Cordylodontidae Fryxellodontidae Proconodontidae
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Silurian of Malaysia (2 collections)
• Aluoja of Sweden (8)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Nevada)
• Arenigian of United States (1: Alaska)
• Arenig of Argentina (2), China (3)
• Ordovician of Argentina (7), Australia (4), Canada (10: British Columbia, Newfoundland, Quebec, Québec), China (18), Estonia (17), Kazakhstan (1), Malaysia (2), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (5), Sweden (5), United States (20: Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Tremadoc of Argentina (4), Canada (9: British Columbia), China (5), Iran (1), Kazakhstan (1), Mexico (11), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (14), South Korea (3), Sweden (1), United States (4: Nevada, Virginia)
• Skullrockian of United States (1: Texas)
• Cambrian to Ordovician of Canada (1: Quebec), the Russian Federation (2)
• Cambrian of Australia (2), Canada (27: Alberta, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nunavut, Nunuvat), China (40), New Zealand (2), Norway (5), the Russian Federation (4), South Korea (8), Sweden (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (18: New Mexico, New York, Vermont, Virginia)
• Taoyuanian of China (1)
Total: 278 collections including 568 occurrences