Cryptotaxis

Cryptotaxis Temporal range: Famennian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	†Conodonta
(unranked):	†Prioniodontida
Order:	†Ozarkodinida
Family:	†Cryptotaxidae
Genus:	†Cryptotaxis Klapper & Philip 1971[1]
Species
†Cryptotaxis culminidirecta

Cryptotaxis is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Cryptotaxidae from the Famennian (Upper Devonian).^[2]

References

1. Devonian conodont apparatuses and their vicarious skeletal elements. G Klapper and GM Philip, Lethaia, Volume 4, Issue 4, pages 429–452, October 1971, doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1971.tb01865.x
2. Acta Geologica Polonica, Volume 55, Pages 211-466. Museum Ziemi. 2005. p. 211. Devonian conodonts (Cryptotaxis sp.) are so far known only from the Frasnian - middle Famennian in the Solimoes Basin, northwestern Brazil (Hunicken & al. 1988).

• "Multielement Conodont Species from the Louisiana Limestone (Upper Devonian) of West-Central Illinois and Northeastern Missouri, U.S.A.", Karl M. Chauffe and Patricia A. Nichols, Micropaleontology, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Summer, 1995), pages 171–186, doi:10.2307/1485950.

External links

• "Cryptotaxis". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 14 July 2016.