Meiognathus

Meiognathus
Temporal range: Kungurian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Conodonta
Order: Ozarkodinida
Family: Sweetognathidae
Genus: Meiognathus
Shen et al. 2012
Type species
Meiognathus pustulus

Meiognathus is an extinct genus of conodonts belonging to the family Sweetognathidae.

Meiognathus pustulus is from the Permian (Kungurian) of Hatahoko, Japan.[1]

  1. ^ Implications of Kungurian (Early Permian) conodonts from Hatahoko, Japan, for correlation between the Tethyan and international timescales. Shu-zhong Shen, Dong-xun Yuan, Charles M. Henderson, Junichi Tazawa and Yi-chun Zhang, Micropaleontology, 2012, volume 58, issue 6, pages 505–522