Thelodontiformes

Thelodontiformes is an extinct order of jawless fish of the Silurian.[1]

Thelodontiformes
Comparison of Thelodus and Loganellia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	†Thelodonti
Order:	†Thelodontiformes Kiaer, 1932
Families
†Coelolepidae †Eestilepididae †Helenolepididae †Loganelliidae †Longodidae †Palaeodontidae †Phlebolepididae †Shieliidae †Talivaliidae †Turiniidae Genera without placement in any family: †Katoporodus – †Kawalepsis
Synonyms
†Coelolepidiformes Berg, 1937

Because the paucity of intact fossils, especially since some families are known entirely from scale fossils, taxonomy of thelodonts is based primarily on scale morphology. A recent assessment of thelodont taxonomy by Wilson and Märss in 2009 merges the orders Loganelliiformes, Katoporiida and Shieliiformes into Thelodontiformes, places families Lanarkiidae and Nikoliviidae into Furcacaudiformes (because of scale morphology) and establishes Archipelepidiformes as the basal-most order.[2]

Life reconstruction of Phlebolepis elegans

References

1. Kiaer, J., 1932: New coelolepids from the Upper Silurian on Oesel (Esthonia). Eesti Loodusteaduse Arhiiv, Seeria 1, 10: 167-176.
2. Wilson, Mark VH, and Tiiu Märss. "Thelodont phylogeny revisited, with inclusion of key scale-based taxa." Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 58.4 (2009): 297œ310.

External links

• Data related to Thelodontiformes at Wikispecies