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

Cryptotaxis
Temporal range: Famennian
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Cryptotaxis

Species

Cryptotaxis culminidirecta

References

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  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.
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