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conodont
Conodonts ( Greek ''kōnos'', " cone", + ''odont'', " tooth") are an extinct group of agnathan (jawless) vertebrates resembling eels, classified in the class Conodonta. For many years, they were known only from their tooth-like oral elements, w ...
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Acanthodus
''Acanthodus'' is an extinct genus of conodonts.
''Acanthodus humachensis'' and ''A. raqueli'' are from then Late Cambrian (late Furongian) or early Ordovician (Tremadocian) of the Santa Rosita Formation
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Acodus''
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Acuminatella
''Acuminatella'' is a genus of gondolellid conodonts. Fossils have been found in the Pardonet Formation
The Schooler Creek Group is a Stratigraphy, stratigraphic unit of Middle Triassic, Middle to Late Triassic (Ladinian to Norian) Geochronolog ...
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Alternognathus
''Alternognathus'' is an extinct conodont
Conodonts (Greek ''kōnos'', "cone", + ''odont'', "tooth") are an extinct group of agnathan (jawless) vertebrates resembling eels, classified in the class Conodonta. For many years, they were known on ...
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Amorphognathus
''Amorphognathus'' is an extinct conodont genus in the family Balognathidae
Balognathidae is an extinct conodont family.
Genera
Genera are:
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Ancyrodella''
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Ancyrognathus
''Ancyrognathus'' is an extinct genus of conodonts.
During the Famennian
The Famennian is the latter of two faunal stages in the Late Devonian Epoch. The most recent estimate for its duration estimates that it lasted from around 371.1 millio ...
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Anticostiodus
''Anticostiodus'' is an extinct genus of multielement conodont
Conodonts (Greek ''kōnos'', "cone", + ''odont'', "tooth") are an extinct group of agnathan (jawless) vertebrates resembling eels, classified in the class Conodonta. For many year ...
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Appalachignathus''
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Arianagnathus
''Arianagnathus'' is an extinct genus of conodonts, possibly in the family Balognathidae. The type species ''A. jafariani'' is from the Silurian Niur Formation in Iran
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Bactrognathus''
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Baltoniodus
''Baltoniodus'' is an extinct genus of conodonts.
Use in stratigraphy
The base of the Dapingian, the third stage of the Middle Ordovician, is defined as the first appearance of ''Baltoniodus triangularis''.
The Whiterock Stage refers mainly t ...
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Basselodus''
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Belodina''
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Budurovignathus
''Budurovignathus'' is an extinct genus of conodont.
Use in stratigraphy
The Ladinian stage of the Middle Triassic is defined by the first appearance of ''Budurovignathus praehungaricus''.
The global reference profile for the base (the GSSP ...
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Carnepigondolella''
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Carniodus''
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Cavusgnathus''
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Chiosella''
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Chirodella''
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Chirognathus
''Chirognathus'' is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Chirognathidae.
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''Chirognathus''at fossilworks
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Colaptoconus''
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Complexodus
''Complexodus'' is an extinct conodont genus in the family Pterospathodontidae.
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Cordylodus''
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Cornuodus''
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Clarkina''
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Clydagnathus''
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Cryptotaxis''
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Ctenognathodus''
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Culumbodina''
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Curtognathus
''Curtognathus'' is an extinct genus of conodonts from the Ordovician in the family Distacodontidae.
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''Curtognathus''at fossilworks
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Cypridodella''
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Dapsilodus''
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Declinognathodus
''Declinognathodus'' is an extinct genus of platform conodonts.
Use in stratigraphy
The Bashkirian, the oldest age of the Pennsylvanian (also known as Upper Carboniferous), contains six biozones based on conodont index fossils, two of which ...
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Decoriconus''
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Diaphorodus''
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Diplognathodus''
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Distomodus
''Distomodus'' is an extinct genus of conodont
Conodonts (Greek ''kōnos'', "cone", + ''odont'', "tooth") are an extinct group of agnathan (jawless) vertebrates resembling eels, classified in the class Conodonta. For many years, they were kno ...
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Doliognathus''
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Dollymae
''Dollymae'' is an extinct genus of conodonts.Les conodontes du Tournaisien supérieur de la Belgique: note préliminaire. E Groessens, 1971, Service Géologique de Belgique
Use in stratigraphy
The Tournaisian, the oldest age of the Mississip ...
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Drepanodus''
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Eoconodontus
''Eoconodontus'' is an extinct genus of conodonts of the Late Cambrian. It is a two-elements (rounded and compressed) genus from the ''Proconodontus'' lineage.
Use in stratigraphy
It is suggested that ''Eoconodontus notchpeakensis'' can be a m ...
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Ellisonia
''Ellisonia'' is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Ellisoniidae.A natural assemblage of Ellisonia sp. cf. E. triassica Müller (Vertebrata: Conodonta) from the uppermost Permian in the Suzuka Mountains, central Japan. Toshio Koike, Sat ...
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Eolinguipolygnathus''
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Epigondolella
''Epigondolella'' is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Gondolellidae.
Synonyms
'' Mazzaella'' is a new genus for ''Epigondolella carnica'' Krystyn (1975).
Use in stratigraphy
The top of the Norian (or the base of the Rhaetian, in ...
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Erismodus''
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Erraticodon
''Erraticodon'' is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Chirognathidae.Revision of the conodont Erraticodon hexianensis from the upper Meitan Formation (Middle Ordovician) of Guizhou, South China. Yong Yi Zhen, Jianbo Liu and Ian G. Perci ...
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Fahraeusodus''
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Foliella
''Foliella'' is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Ellisoniidae.
References
* Significance of Platyvilosus costatus and Foliella gardenae as indicators for the Dienerian- Smithian and Smithian-Spathian boundaries, respectively: a st ...
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Furnishina''
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Gamachignathus''
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Gapparodus
''Gapparodus'' is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Furnishinidae. ''Gapparodus gapparites'' is a species of the Early Cambrian
The Cambrian Period ( ; sometimes symbolized Ꞓ) was the first geological period of the Paleozoic E ...
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Gnathodus''
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Gondolella
''Gondolella'' is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Gondolellidae
Gondolellidae is an extinct family of conodonts in the order Ozarkodinida. There are three subfamilies: Mullerinae, Neogondolellinae and Novispathodinae.
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Hadrodontina
''Hadrodontina'' is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Ellisoniidae.
References
* The Triassic System: New Developments in Stratigraphy and Paleontology. Lawrence H. Tanner, Justin A. Spielmann and Spencer G. Lucas
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Hamarodus''
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Hertzina
''Hertzina'' is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Furnishinidae
Furnishinidae is an extinct family of conodonts in the order Paraconodontida.
Genera
Genera are:
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Hindeodus''
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Histiodella
''Histiodella'' is an extinct genus of conodonts.
''Histiodella wuhaiensis'' is from the Ordovician of the Lower Klimoli Formation in China.Ordovician conodonts from Dashimen, Wuhai in Inner Mongolia and the significance of the discovery of th ...
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Iapetognathus
''Iapetognathus'' is a genus of cordylodan conodonts. It is one of the oldest denticulate euconodont genera known.The conodont Iapetognathus and its value for defining the base of the Ordovician System. Frederick Miller, John E. Repetski, Rober ...
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Iapetonudus''
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Idiognathodus''
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Idiognathoides''
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Istorinus''
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Jinogondolella''
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Juanognathus''
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Jumudontus''
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Kallidontus
''Kallidontus'' is an extinct genus of conodonts.
Pyle and Barnes described the genus in 2002 from the Kechika Formation, Skoki Formation, and Road River Group (Upper Cambrian to Lower Silurian), in Northeastern British Columbia, in Canada.
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Kladognathus''
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Kockelella
''Kockelella'' is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Kockelellidae from the Silurian.Taxonomy and evolution of Kockelella (Conodonta) from Silurian of Sardinia. Enrico Serpagli and Carlo Corradini, Bollettino della Societa Paleontologic ...
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Kraussodontus
''Kraussodontus'' is an extinct genus of gondolellid ozarkodinid conodonts of the Late Triassic (late Carnian) in the Pardonet Formation
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Lanea
''Lanea'' is an extinct conodont genus in the family Spathognathodontidae from the Early Devonian.
References
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Lenodus''
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Lochriea''
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Mazzaella''
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Meiognathus''
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Mesogondolella''
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Metapolygnathus''
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Microzarkodina
''Microzarkodina'' is an extinct genus of conodonts mainly from the Middle Ordovician of Baltoscandia. The Microzarkodina apparatus probably consisted of 15 or 17 elements: four P, two or four M and nine S elements. The S elements include differ ...
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Misikella''
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Mongolodus
''Mongolodus'' is an extinct genus of protoconodont
Protoconodonts are an extinct taxonomic group of conodonts or, possibly, Chaetognaths.
Chaetognaths (also known as arrow worms) were thought possibly to be related to some of the animals gr ...
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Muellerilepis
''Muellerilepis'' is an extinct genus of conodonts.
The name is a tribute to German paleontologist Klaus J. Müller (1923-2010). It is a replacement generic name for ''Muellerina (disambiguation), Muellerina'' Bardashev et Bardasheva, 2012. whi ...
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Nealeodus
''Nealeodus'' is a genus of conodonts which existed in what is now Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arcti ...
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Neognathodus
''Neognathodus'' is an extinct genus of conodonts.
Use in stratigraphy
The Bashkirian, the oldest age of the Pennsylvanian (also known as Upper Carboniferous), contains six biozones based on conodont index fossils, two of which contain ''Neo ...
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Neohindeodella''
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Neospathodus''
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Neostreptognathodus''
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Oepikodus''
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Oistodus''
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Oulodus
''Oulodus'' is a genus of conodonts in the family Prioniodinidae.
''O. elegans'' is found in the Late Silurian to Early Devonian Keyser Formation, a mapped limestone bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.
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Ozarkodina''
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Paltodus''
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Palmatolepis''
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Panderodus''
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Paracordylodus''
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Parafurnishius
''Parafurnishius'' is an extinct genus of conodont in the family Ellisoniidae.
The type species, ''P. xuanhanensis'', has been described by Yang ''et al'' in 2014 in the Early Triassic (Induan) Feixianguan Formation of northeastern Sichuan Pr ...
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Parapachycladina
''Parapachycladina'' is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Ellisoniidae, from the Early Triassic of the Beisi Formation in Guangxi Province, China.Surface microstructure of Parapachycladina peculiaris and reflection on its study. Zhang ...
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Paroistodus''
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Patrognathus
''Patrognathus'' is an extinct genus of conodonts.
Use in stratigraphy
The Tournaisian
The Tournaisian is in the ICS geologic timescale the lowest stage or oldest age of the Mississippian, the oldest subsystem of the Carboniferous. The T ...
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Pedavis''
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Periodon
''Periodon'' is a genus of conodonts which existed in what is now Canada, Iran, Argentina, China, Russia, and the United States during the Ordovician Period. It was described by Hadding in 1913, and the type species is ''P. aculeatus''.
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Phragmodus''
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Polonodus''
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Polygnathodella
''Polygnathodella'' is an extinct genus of conodont.
Glen K. Merrill stated in 1963 that "conodont workers have considered ''Idiognathoides'' to be a junior synonym of ''Polygnathodella'' but it now proves to be a junior synonym of ''Cavusgnath ...
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Polygnathus''
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Prioniodus
''Prioniodus'' is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Balognathidae from the Ordovician.On Pander's Ordovician conodonts: distribution and significance of the Prioniodus elegans fauna in Baltoscandia. SM Bergström, Senckenbergiana lethae ...
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Proconodontus''
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Promissum''
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Protohertzina''
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Protognathodus
''Protognathodus'' is an extinct conodont
Conodonts (Greek ''kōnos'', "cone", + ''odont'', "tooth") are an extinct group of agnathan (jawless) vertebrates resembling eels, classified in the class Conodonta. For many years, they were known on ...
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Protoprioniodus''
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Pseudobelodina''
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Pseudooneotodus''
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Pseudopolygnathus''
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Pteracontiodus''
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Pterospathodus''
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Pygodus''
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Rossodus
''Rossodus'' is an extinct genus of conodonts in the clade Prioniodontida, the "complex conodonts", of the Early Ordovician
The Ordovician ( ) is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era. The Ordovician spa ...
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Scabbardella''
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Scaliognathus''
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Scolopodus''
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Scotlandia''
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Scyphiodus''
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Siphonodella''
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Spathognathodus
''Spathognathodus'' is an extinct conodont genus in the family Spathognathodontidae. It is a non-Platform conodont, from the Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous).Pennsylvanian Nonplatform Conodont Genera, I: Spathognathodus. Glen K. Merrill, Journal o ...
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Spinodus
''Spinodus'' is a genus of conodont
Conodonts (Greek ''kōnos'', "cone", + ''odont'', "tooth") are an extinct group of agnathan (jawless) vertebrates resembling eels, classified in the class Conodonta. For many years, they were known only from ...
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Staufferella''
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Staurognathus''
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Stereoconus''
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Strachanognathus''
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Streptognathus''
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Sweetognathus''
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Taoqupognathus''
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Taphrognathus
''Taphrognathus'' is an extinct genus of conodonts from the Dinantian (Lower Carboniferous).The Dinantian Taphrognathus transatlanticus conodont Range Zone of Great Britain and Atlantic Canada. Peter H. Von Bitter and Ronald L. Austin, Palaeon ...
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Tripodus''
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Tropodus''
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Utahconus
''Utahconus'' is an extinct genus of conodonts.
''Utahconus purmamarcensis'', ''U. scandodiformis'' and ''U. tortibasis'' are from the Late Cambrian (late Furongian) or early Ordovician (Tremadocian) of the Santa Rosita Formation in the Tilcara ...
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Variabiloconus
''Variabiloconus'' is an extinct genus of conodonts.
''Variabiloconus bassleri'' (Furnish) is from the upper part of middle Gasconade Dolomites at Phillips Quarry, United States.
''Variabiloconus crassus'' Zeballo and Albanesi, 2013 is from t ...
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Vjalovognathus''
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Westergaardodina
''Westergaardodina'' is a species-rich genus of spine, U or W-shaped paraconodont known from Middle Cambrian to Lower Ordovician strata.
Use in stratigraphy
Paibi, a village in Hunan, China, is the location of the Global Boundary Stratotype ...
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Wurmiella
''Wurmiella'' is an extinct conodont genus.
''Wurmiella excavata'' is from the Lower Devonian of Nevada.Statistical study of Ozarkodina excavata (Branson and Mehl) and O. tuma Murphy and Matti (Lower Devonian, delta Zone, conodonts, Nevada). Mi ...
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Yaoxianognathus''
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Zieglerodina''
References
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