Manticolepis Müller, 1956

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 : 606

Genus Manticolepis Müller, 1956

Type species: Palmatolepis subrecta Miller and Youngquist, 1947 = Palmatolepis winchelli ( Stauffer, 1938) ( Klapper and Foster 1993) .

Emended diagnosis.—Palmatolepidids with P 1 (sp) elements of generalised shape and typically Frasnian basal bending of the dorsal process and M (ne) elements with wide angle between processes.

Remarks.—Other names are available for this genus: Ligonodinoides Stauffer, 1938 , with the type species Ligonodinoides ohioensis Stauffer, 1938 based on M (ne) element of L. winchelli ( Stauffer, 1938) , and Gnamptognathus Ziegler, 1958 , with type species Gnamptognathus walliseri Ziegler, 1958 being S 1 (lo) element probably of M. rhenana ( Ziegler, 1958) or M. winchelli ( Palmatolepis unicornis in Ziegler 1958: pl. 6: 11).

Species included.—The type species Manticolepis gigas ( Miller and Youngquist, 1947) and Manticolepis rhenana ( Ziegler, 1958) .