Biology:Utahconus
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Short description: Extinct genus of jawless fishes
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| Genus: | †Utahconus Miller 1980[1]
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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 Santa Rosita Formation in the Tilcara Range, Cordillera Oriental of Jujuy in Argentina.[2]
According to J. John Sepkoski, Jr., it's in the order Conodontophoria in the class Conodonta.[3]
References
- ↑ 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. ISSN 0075-5052.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Sepkoski, J. John Jr. (2002). Jablonski, David; Foote, Michael. eds. "A Compendium of Fossil Marine Animal Genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 363: 548.
External links
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- Utahconus at fossilworks.org (retrieved 26 June 2016)
Wikidata ☰ Q24887262 entry
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