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Cordylodus

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Cordylodus
Temporal range: Furongian
~488–416 Ma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Conodonta
Order: Proconodontida
Family: Cordylodontidae
Genus: Cordylodus
Pander, 1856[1]
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 Cordylodontidae.

Use in stratigraphy

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

Distribution

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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

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  1. ^ C. Pander. 1856. Monographie der fossilen Fische des silurischen Systems des Russisch-Baltischen Gouvernements.
  2. ^ Moreno et al., 2008, p.10
  3. ^ "Cordylodus". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 29 June 2016.

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