''Proconodontus'' 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, which ...
s in the family
Proconodontidae
Proconodontidae is an extinct family of conodonts in the order Proconodontida
Proconodontida is an order of conodonts.
References
* A suprageneric taxonomy of the conodonts. Maurits Lindström, Lethaia, Volume 3, Issue 4, pages 427–4 ...
. The specimens are found in
Cambrian
The Cambrian Period ( ; sometimes symbolized C with bar, Ꞓ) was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 53.4 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran Period 538.8 million ...
formations.
[Late Cambrian euconodonts from Sweden. Hubert Szaniawski and Stefan Bengtson, 1998, Proceedings of the Sixth European Conodont Symposium (ECOS VI), Palaeontologia Polonica 58, 7-29]
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Proconodontida genera
Cambrian conodonts
Paleozoic life of Newfoundland and Labrador
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Cambrian genus extinctions