Palaeos:		Conodonta
The Vertebrates		References

Conodonta: References

Vertebrata
|--+--Pteraspidomorphi
|  `--Gnathostomata
|
Conodonta
|--Paraconodontida
`--Euconodonta
   |--Proconodontidae
   `--+--Protopanderodontida
      `--Prioniodontida
         |--Balognathidae
         `--+--Prioniodinida
            `--Ozarkodinida

References

Albanesi, GL & CP Barnes (2000), Subspeciation within a punctuated equilibrium evolutionary event: phylogenetic history of the Lower-Middle Ordovician Paroistodus originalis - P. horridus complex (Conodonta).  J. Paleontol. 74: 492-502. Conodonta

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

Gabbott, SE, RJ Aldridge & JN Theron (1995), A giant conodont with preserved muscle tissue from the Upper Ordovician of South Africa. Nature 374: 800-803. Euconodonta.

Janvier, P (1995), Conodonts join the club. Nature 374: 761-762. Euconodonta.

Purnell, MA (1995), Microwear on conodont elements and macrophagy in the first vertebrates. Nature 374: 798-800. Conodonta, Euconodonta, Ozarkodinida.

Purnell, MA (2001), Feeding in conodonts and other early vertebrates in DEG Briggs & PR Crowther (eds.), Paleobiology II.  Blackwell Science: 583 pp. Conodonta, Ozarkodinida

Purnell, MA (2001a), Scenarios, selection and the ecology of early vertebrates in PE Ahlberg (ed.), Major Events in Vertebrate Evolution: Palaeontology, Phylogeny, Genetics, and Development.  Systematics Assoc. Spec. Vol. Ser. 61, pp. 187-208.  Conodonta, Ozarkodinida

Purnell, MA & PCJ Donoghue (1997), Architecture and functional morphology of the skeletal apparatus of ozarkodinid conodonts.  Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 352: 1545-1564. Conodonta, Ozarkodinida.

Purnell, MA, PCJ Donoghue & RJ Aldridge (2000), Orientation and anatomical notation in conodonts.  J. Paleontol. 74: 113-122. Prioniodontida, Ozarkodinida.

Shu, D-G, S Conway Morris, J Han, Z-F Zhang, K Yasui, P Janvier, L Chen, X-L Zhang, J-N Liu, Y Li & H-Q Liu (2002), Head and backbone of the Early Cambrian vertebrate Haikouichthys.  Nature 421: 526-529.  Conodonta

Sweet, WC & PCJ Donoghue (2001), Conodonts: past present, future.  J. Paleontol. 75: 1174-1184. Conodonta, Ozarkodinida, Paraconodontida.

Zimmer, C (2000), In search of vertebrate origins: beyond brain and bone, Science 287: 1576. Euconodonta