''Meiognathus'' 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 known only from their tooth-like oral elements, w ...
s belonging to the family
Sweetognathidae
Sweetognathidae is an extinct family of conodonts in the order Ozarkodinida
Ozarkodinida is an extinct conodont order. It is part of the clade Prioniodontida, also known as the "complex conodonts".
Name
Ozarkodinida is named after the Ozark ...
.
''Meiognathus pustulus'' is from the Permian (
Kungurian
In the geologic timescale, the Kungurian is an age or stage of the Permian. It is the latest or upper of four subdivisions of the Cisuralian Epoch or Series. The Kungurian lasted between and million years ago (Ma). It was preceded by the Art ...
) of
Hatahoko, Japan.
[Implications of Kungurian (Early Permian) conodonts from Hatahoko, Japan, for correlation between the Tethyan and international timescales. Shu-zhong Shen, Dong-xun Yuan, Charles M. Henderson, Junichi Tazawa and Yi-chun Zhang, Micropaleontology, 2012, volume 58, issue 6, pages 505–522]
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Ozarkodinida genera
Permian conodonts
Cisuralian animals
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