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Taphrognathus Temporal range: Mississippian |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | †Conodonta |
| (unranked): | †Prioniodontida |
| Order: | †Ozarkodinida |
| Superfamily: | †Polygnathacea |
| Family: | †Cavusgnathidae |
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†Taphrognathus Branson and Mehl, 1941 |
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Taphrognathus is an extinct genus of conodonts from the Dinantian (Lower Carboniferous).
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.