Biology:Periodon

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Short description: Genus of jawless fishes

Periodon
Temporal range: Ordovician
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Priodontina
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Periodon

Hadding, 1913

Periodon is a genus of conodonts which existed in what is now Canada , Iran, Argentina , China , Russia , and the United States during the Ordovician Period. It was described by Hadding in 1913, and the type species is P. aculeatus.

Species

  • Periodon flabellum Lindström, 1954
  • Periodon zgierzensis Dzik, 1976
  • Periodon aculeatus Hadding, 1913[1]
  • Periodon selenopsis Serpagli, 1974[2]
  • Periodon macrodentatus (Graves & Ellison 1941)
  • Periodon hankensis Svend Stouge, 2012[3]

References

  1. ↑ Dubinina, S. V., and A. V. Ryazantsev (2008), Conodont stratigraphy and correlation of the Ordovician volcanogenic and volcanogenic sedimentary sequences in the South Urals, Russ. J. Earth Sci., 10, ES5001, doi:10.2205/2008ES000302.
  2. ↑ The Base of the Middle Ordovician Series Using Graphic Correlation Method Svend Stouge, Wang Xiofeng, Li Zhihong, Chen Xiaohong, and Wang Chuanshang.
  3. ↑ Svend Stouge (2012). "Middle Ordovician (late Dapingian–Darriwilian) conodonts from the Cow Head Group and Lower Head Formation, western Newfoundland, Canada". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 49 (1): 59–90. doi:10.1139/e11-057. 

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