Utahconus

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Utahconus
Temporal range: Furongian–Tremadocian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Genus:
Utahconus

1980[1]
Type species
Paltodus utahensis
Miller, 1969
Species
  • Ji & Barnes, 1994
  • (Furnish, 1938)
  • Zeballo & Albanesi, 2013
  • Zeballo & Albanesi, 2013
  • Miller, 1980
  • Zeballo & Albanesi, 2013
  • (Miller, 1969)

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 in the Tilcara Range, Cordillera Oriental of Jujuy in Argentina.[2]

According to J. John Sepkoski, Jr., it's in the order in the class Conodonta.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Miller, James F. (1980). "Taxonomic revisions of some Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician Conodonts with comments on their Evolution". The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions. 99: 35–37. hdl:1808/3732. ISSN 0075-5052.
  2. ^ Zeballo, Fernando J.; Albanesi, Guillermo L. (2013). "New conodont species and biostratigraphy of the Santa Rosita Formation (upper Furongian-Tremadocian) in the Tilcara Range, Cordillera Oriental of Jujuy, Argentina". Geological Journal. 48 (2–3): 181–187. doi:10.1002/gj.2425.
  3. ^ Sepkoski, Jr., J. John (2002). Jablonski, David; Foote, Michael (eds.). "A Compendium of Fossil Marine Animal Genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 548.

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