Opis

Diagnosis. — Secondarily lost axial symmetry in P1 elements.

Remarks. — Classification of Siphonodella in this family was based on the assumption that its apparatus P2 location was occupied by elements earlier classified as Elictognathus. Although only one of the Siphonodella-like Tournaisian conodonts may possibly fit such an apparatus concept. P2 elements of Elictognathus morphology co-occur with ramiform elements classified in Dinodus, the generic name having priority. The Devonian elements with a morphology resembling Dinodus can hardly belong to an apparatus related to the Siphonodella lineage and probably are rather of prioniodinid affinities (Guizhoudella). The derived morphology of apparatus elements of Siphonodella probably did not originate before the Tournaisian. Possibly, the earliest elictognathids were quite different and their roots are to be looked for in Immognathus. All this introduces much uncertainty to classification of those conodonts and requires clarification. 

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Literatura

Dzik, J. 2006. The Famennian "Golden Age" of conodonts and ammonoids in the Polish part of the Variscan sea. Palaeontologia Polonica 63, 1-359.