''Cryptotaxis'' is an extinct genus of

conodont Conodonts (Greek ''kōnos'', "cone", + ''odont'', "tooth") are an extinct group of agnathan (jawless) vertebrates resembling eels, classified in the class Conodonta. For many years, they were known only from their tooth-like oral elements, which ...

s in the family

Cryptotaxidae Cryptotaxidae is an extinct family of conodonts in the order Ozarkodinida. It includes the extinct genus ''Cryptotaxis ''Cryptotaxis'' is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Cryptotaxidae from the Famennian The Famennian is the ...

from the

Famennian The Famennian is the latter of two faunal stages in the Late Devonian Epoch. The most recent estimate for its duration estimates that it lasted from around 371.1 million years ago to 359.3 million years ago. An earlier 2012 estimate, still used b ...

(Upper Devonian).

References

* 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,

External links

* Ozarkodinida genera Devonian conodonts Fish of the Amazon basin {{Conodont-stub