Extinct genus of jawless fishes
Taphrognathus
Temporal range: Mississippian
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†Taphrognathus
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- †Taphrognathus transatlanticus
- †Taphrognathus varians
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Taphrognathus is an extinct genus of conodonts from the Dinantian (Lower Carboniferous).[2]
Synonyms
In 1947 the name Taphrognathus was also used to describe a prehistoric amphibian from the Middle Triassic of Arizona, but the amphibian was renamed Hadrokkosaurus in 1957 after the synonymy was realized.[3]