Robust Late Pennsylvanian–Early Permian conodont ramiform elements with widely spaced denticles previously assigned to the Triassic genus Ellisonia Müller 1956 are placed in Boardmanites n. gen. based on the reconstruction of the apparatus of the type species, B. conflexa (Ellison 1941). Collections of extremely well-preserved elements from latest Pennsylvanian and early Permian shallow-water facies in north-central Texas appear to include all elements of the apparatus. The seximembrate apparatus comprises small, simple angulate P1? and extensiform digyrate P2? elements and a small possible bipennate S element that is rarely preserved in most residues. The other S elements, including the S0 element and a series of bipennate elements, are larger, more robust. Commonly only fragments of these elements occur in conodont samples. The robust conflexa element is a dolabrate M element with a flaring, completely excavated basal cavity. Similar younger Permian ramiform conodont genera possess an M element with an everted basal cavity and often a third process on the P1 element.
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