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Abbreviated Cladogram

CRANIATA
|--CONODONTA
`--+--PTERASPIDOMORPHI
   `--Thelodonti
      |--+--Furcacaudiformes
      |  `--Thelodontida 
      `--+--+--Katoporida  
         |  `--Cephalaspidomorphi 
         |     |--Galeaspida
         |     |  |--Eugaleaspidiformes
         |     |  `--Polybranchiaspidida
         |     `--+--Pituriaspida
         |        `--Osteostraci
         |           |--Ateleaspis
         |           `--Cornuata
         `--+--Loganiidae            
            `--Gnathostomata
               |--PLACODERMI
               `--+--CHONDRICHTHYES
                  `--TELEOSTOMI

Contents

50.000 Overview
50.100 Thelodonti
50.200 Thelodontida
50.300 Katoporida
50.400 Cephalaspidomorphi
50.600 Osteostraci
50.700 Cornuata
50.800 Loganiidae
Cladogram
References


Blom, H (1999), Loganellia (Thelodonti, Agnatha) from the Lower Silurian of North Greenland, Acta Geol. Polonica 49: 97-104. Loganellia

Blom, H & D Goujet (2002), Thelodont scales from the Lower Devonian Red Bay Group, Spitsbergen, Palaeontology 45: 795-820. Apalolepididae, Katoporida, Nikoliviidae, Turiniidae, Thelodontida.

*Diekwisch, TGH, BJ Berman, X Anderton, B Gurinsky, AJ Ortega, PG Satchall, M Williams, C Arumugham, X-G Luan, JE McIntosh, A Yamane, DS Carlson, J-Y Sire & CF Shuler (2002), Membranes, minerals, and proteins of developing vertebrate enamel. Microscopy Res. & Tech. 59: 373-395.  Thelodonti.

Donoghue, PCJ, PL Forey & RJ Aldridge (2000), Conodont affinity and chordate phylogeny. Biol. Rev. 75: 191-251. Thelodonti.  

Donoghue, PCJ & MP Smith (2001), The anatomy of Turinia pagei (Powrie), and the phylogenetic status of Thelodonti, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, Earth Sci. 92: 15-37.  KatoporidaThelodonti, Thelodontidae, Turiniidae.  

Janvier, P (1996), Early Vertebrates, Oxford, 393 pp. Apalolepididae, Ateleaspis, Benneviaspidida; Cephalaspidida, Cornuata, Eugaleaspidiformes, Galeaspida, Hemicyclaspis, Huananaspidiformes, Kiaeraspidida, Lanarkia, Loganellia, Loganiidae, Phlebolepis, Polybranchiaspidida, Polybranchiaspidiformes, Thelodonti, Thyestiida, Zenaspidida.

Janvier, P & A Blieck (1993), The Silurian-Devonian Agnathan Biostratigraphy of the Old Red Continent in JA Long (ed.), Palaeozoic Vertebrate Biostratigraphy and Biogeography. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, pp.70-73. Thelodonti.

Karatajute-Talimaa, VN (2002), Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) Thelodonts from October Revolution Island (Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russia), Geodiversitas 24: 791-804.  Furcacaudiformes, Thelodontida, Thelodontidae, Turiniidae.  

Karatajute-Talimaa, VN & T Marss (2002), Upper Silurian thelodonts from Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago (Russia), Geodiversitas 24: 405-443.  Loganiidae, Phlebolepis, Thelodontidae.

Long, JA (1993), Morphological Characteristics of Paleozoic Vertebrates used in biostratigraphy, in JA Long (ed.), Palaeozoic Vertebrate Biostratigraphy and Biogeography. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, pp.3-24. Thelodonti.  

Long, JA (1995), The Rise of Fishes: 500 Million Years of Evolution. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 223 pp. Osteostraci.

Marss, T (1986), Squamation of the thelodont agnathan Phlebolepis. J. Vert. Paleontol. 6: 1-11.  Katoporida, Loganiidae, Phlebolepis, Thelodonti, Thelodontida.  

Marss, T (1999), A new Late Silurian or Early Devonian thelodont from the Boothia peninsula, Arctic Canada, Palaeontology 42: 1079-1099.  Archipelepididae, Nikoliviidae.  

Marss, T (2002), Silurian and Lower Devonian anaspids (Agnatha) from Severnaya Zemlya (Russia), Geodiversitas 24: 123-137. Cephalaspidida

Marss, T & VN Karatajute-Talimaa (2002), Ordovician and Lower Silurian thelodonts from Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago (Russia), Geodiversitas 24: 381-404.  Loganiidae

Marss, T & A Ritchie (1998), Articulated thelodonts (Agnatha) of Scotland, Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, Earth Sci. 88: 143-195.  Lanarkia, Loganellia, Shielia. 

Mazan, S, D Jaillard, B Baratte & P Janvier (2000), Otx1 gene-controlled morphogenesis of the horizontal semicircular canal and the origin of the gnathostome characteristics. Evol. & Devel. 2: 186-193.

Miller CG & T Märss (1999), A conodont, thelodont and acanthodian fauna from the Lower Pridoli (Silurian) of the Much Wenlock area, Shropshire. Palaeontology 42: 691-714.  Loganiidae.

Novitskaya, LI (1998), The visceral system of Paleozoic agnathans (Heterostraci, Thelodonti) and possible ways of transition to the branchial apparatus of gnathostome verte-brates. Paleontol. Zh. 32: 269-277. 

Ritchie, A (1967), Ateleaspis tessellata Traquair, a non-cornuate cephalaspid from the Upper Silurian of Scotland. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 47: 69-81. [This issue, no. 311, was published as a separate festschrift volume for Dr. Errol I. White and is sometimes cited -- and filed by librarians -- as "Patterson, C & PH Greenwood (eds.) (1967), Fossil Vertebrates. Academic Press"] Ateleaspis

Sansom, IJ & DK Elliott (2002), A thelodont from the Ordovician of Canada, J. Vert. Paleontol. 22: 867–870.  Loganiidae, Thelodontida, Thelodontidae.  

Sansom, IJ, MM Smith, & MP Smith (1996), Shark and thelodont scales from the Ordovician of Colorado, Nature 379: 628-630.

Sansom, IJ, MM Smith & MP Smith (2001), The Ordovician radiation of vertebrates in PE Ahlberg [ed.] Major Events in Early Vertebrate Evolution, Taylor & Francis, pp. 156-171.  Thelodonti.

Soehn, KL, T Marss, MW Caldwell & MVH Wilson (2001), New and biostratigraphically useful thelodonts from the Silurian of the Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada, J. Vert. Paleontol. 21: 651-650.  Archipelepididae, Katoporida, Thelodonti, Turiniidae.

Turner, S (1997), Sequence of Devonian thelodont scale assemblages in East Gondwana, in G Klapper, MA Murphy & J Talent [eds.], Paleozoic sequence Stratigraphy, biostratigraphy and biogeography: studies in honor of Dr J. Granville ("Jess") Johnson.  Spec. Pap. Geol. Soc. Amer. 321: 1-45.  Turiniidae.  

Turner, S (1999), Early Silurian to Early Devonian thelodont assemblages and their possible ecological significance, in AJ Boucot & J Lawson [eds.], Palaeocommunities, International Geological Correlation Programme 53, Project Ecostratigraphy, Final Report. Cambridge University Press, pp. 42-78.  Archipelepididae, Loganellia, Loganiidae, Shielia, Thelodonti, Thelodontidae.   

Turner, S, JJ Kuglitsch & DL Clark (1999), Llandoverian thelodont scales from the Burnt Bluff Group of Wisconsin and Michigan, J. Paleontol. 73: 667–676.  Katoporida, Loganiidae, Phlebolepis.  

Van der Brugghen, W & P Janvier (1993), Denticles in thelodonts. Nature 364: 107.  Loganellia

Wilson, MVH & MW Caldwell (1993), New Silurian and Devonian fork-tailed 'thelodonts' are jawless vertebrates with stomachs and deep bodies, Nature 361: 442-444.  Furcacaudiformes, Thelodonti.  

Wilson, MVH & MW Caldwell (1998), The Furcacaudiformes: a new order of jawless vertebrates with thelodont scales, based on articulated Silurian and Devonian fossils from Northern Canada. J. Vert. Paleontol. 18: 10-29. Furcacaudiformes, Thelodonti.  


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