Palmatolepididae Sweet, 1988

Dzik, Jerzy, 2002, Emergence and collapse of the Frasnian conodont and ammonoid communities in the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 47 (4), pp. 565-650 : 605

Family Palmatolepididae Sweet, 1988

Emended diagnosis.—Apparatus with M (ne) element having straight processes and S 0 (tr) element with more or less reduced medial process; usually platform−bearing P 1 (sp) and P 2 (oz) elements.

Genera included.— Mesotaxis Klapper and Philip, 1972 , Kielcelepis gen. nov., Manticolepis Müller, 1956 , Lagovilepis gen. nov., Klapperilepis gen. nov., Tripodellus Sannemann, 1955 , Palmatolepis Ulrich and Bassler, 1926 , Panderolepis Helms, 1963 , and Conditolepis van den Boogard and Kuhry, 1979.