Cordylodus

Cordylodus
Temporal range: Furongian
~488–416 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: †Conodonta
Order: †Proconodontida
Family: †Cordylodontidae
Genus: †Cordylodus
Species
  • †C. andresi
  • †C. angulatus
  • †C. caboti
  • †C. caseyi
  • †C. drucei
  • †C. excavatus
  • †C. intermedius
  • †C. lindstromi
  • †C. primitivus
  • †C. prion
  • †C. proavus
  • †C. rotundatus
  • †C. viruanus

Cordylodus is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family of Cordylodontidae.

Use in stratigraphy

It is suggested that Cordylodus andresi can be a marker of the Cambrian Stage 10.

Distribution

Fossils of Cordylodus have been found in Argentina, Australia, Canada (Quebec), China, Colombia (Tarqui, Huila),[2] Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden, and the United States, in the states of Alaska, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma (Bromide Formation), Vermont and Wyoming.[3]

C. horridus has been recovered from the Blakely Sandstone and C. angulatus from the Collier Shale, Ordovician geologic formations in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma.

References

  1. ↑ C. Pander. 1856. Monographie der fossilen Fische des silurischen Systems des Russisch-Baltischen Gouvernements.
  2. ↑ Moreno et al., 2008, p.10
  3. ↑ Cordylodus at fossilworks.org (retrieved 29 June 2016)

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