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Gnathodus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
†Idiognathodontidae

Order
  
Ozarkodinida

Class
  
†Conodonta

Phylum
  
Chordata

Gnathodus

Genus
  
†Gnathodus Pander, 1856

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Gnathodus is an extinct conodont genus in the family Idiognathodontidae.

Use in stratigraphy

The Tournaisian, the oldest age of the Mississippian (also known as Lower Carboniferous), contains eight conodont biozones, 3 of which are defined by Gnathodus species:

  • the zone of Gnathodus pseudosemiglaber and Scaliognathus anchoralis
  • the zone of Gnathodus semiglaber and Polygnathus communis
  • the zone of Gnathodus typicus and Siphonodella isosticha

    • The Visean, the second age of the Mississippian, contains four conodont biozones, two of which are defined by Gnathodus species:

  • the Gnathodus bilineatus Zone
  • the Gnathodus texanus Zone

    • The Serpukhovian, the third or youngest age of the Mississippian, includes four conodont biozones, two of which are defined by Gnathodus species:

  • the Gnathodus postbilineatus Zone
  • the Gnathodus bollandensis Zone

    • References

    Gnathodus Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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