''Parafurnishius'' 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 ...
in the family
Ellisoniidae
Ellisoniidae is an extinct family of conodonts, a kind of primitive chordate.
Genera
Genera are:
* †'' Ellisonia''
* †'' Foliella''
* †'' Hadrodontina''
* †'' Parapachycladina''
* †'' Parafurnishius''
* †'' Stepanovites''
Reference ...
.
The type species, ''P. xuanhanensis'', has been described by Yang ''et al'' in
2014
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in the Early Triassic (
Induan
The Induan is the first age of the Early Triassic epoch in the geologic timescale, or the lowest stage of the Lower Triassic series in chronostratigraphy. It spans the time between 251.902 Ma and Ma (million years ago). The Induan is somet ...
)
Feixianguan Formation of northeastern
Sichuan Province
Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of th ...
, Southwest China.
[Bo Yang, Dong-Xun Yuan, Charles M. Henderson and Shu-Zhong Shen (2014). "Parafurnishius, an Induan (Lower Triassic) conodont new genus from northeastern Sichuan Province, Southwest China and its evolutionary implications". ]Palaeoworld
''Palaeoworld'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal with a focus on palaeontology and stratigraphy research in and around China. It was founded in 1991 by the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences ( ...
23 (3–4): 263–275.
References
External links
Prioniodinida genera
Early Triassic fish
Triassic conodonts
Fossils of China
Triassic fish of Asia
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