Westergaardodina

Westergaardodina
Temporal range: middle Cambrian-lower Ordovician
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
†Conodonta
Order:
†Paraconodontida
Family:
†Westergaardodinidae
Genus:
†Westergaardodina

Species
  • †Westergaardodina asinina Bagnoli & Stouge, 2014[2]
  • †Westergaardodina brevidens
  • †Westergaardodina quadrata
  • †Westergaardodina matsushitai
  • †Westergaardodina grandidens
  • †Westergaardodina lui
  • †Westergaardodina ani
  • †Westergaardodina bohlini
  • †Westergaardodina cf. calix
  • †Westergaardodina proligula
  • †Westergaardodina ligula
  • †Westergaardodina cf. behrae
  • †Westergaardodina tricuspidata
  • †Westergaardodina bicuspidata
  • †Westergaardodina amplicava
  • †Westergaardodina nogamii
  • †Westergaardodina moessebergensis
  • †Westergaardodina curvata
  • †Westergaardodina latidentata
  • †Westergaardodina excentrica
  • †Westergaardodina obliqua
  • †Westergaardodina cf. ahlbergi
  • †Westergaardodina auris
  • †Westergaardodina communis
  • †Westergaardodina concamerata
  • †Westergaardodina dimorpha
  • †Westergaardodina fossa
  • †Westergaardodina gigantea
  • †Westergaardodina horizontalis
  • †Westergaardodina kleva
  • †Westergaardodina microdentata
  • †Westergaardodina polymorpha
  • †Westergaardodina procera
  • †Westergaardodina prominens
  • †Westergaardodina sola
  • †Westergaardodina tetragonia
  • †Westergaardodina wimani

Westergaardodina is a species-rich genus of spine, U or W-shaped paraconodont[3] known from Middle Cambrian to Lower Ordovician strata.[4][5]

  1. ^ Kambrische Conodonten. Klaus J. Müller, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft Band 111 (1959), pages 434-485
  2. ^ Upper Furongian (Cambrian) conodonts from the Degerhamn quarry road section, southern Öland, Sweden. Bagnoli G and Stouge S, 2014, GFF, doi:10.1080/11035897.2013.858768
  3. ^ Murdock, Duncan J. E.; Dong, Xi-Ping; Repetski, John E.; Marone, Federica; Stampanoni, Marco; Donoghue, Philip C. J. (2013-10-24). "Descriptive terminology of paraconodont and euconodont elements. : The origin of conodonts and of vertebrate mineralized skeletons : Nature : Nature Publishing Group". Nature. 502 (7472): 546–549. doi:10.1038/nature12645. PMID 24132236. S2CID 4455633.
  4. ^ Xiping, D.; Repetski, J. E.; Bergström, S. M. (2004). "Conodont Biostratigraphy of the Middle Cambrian through Lowermost Ordovician in Hunan, South China". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 78 (6): 1185. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2004.tb00776.x.
  5. ^ Muller, K.J.; Hinz, I (1991). Upper Cambrian Conodonts from Sweden. Fossils and Strata. Vol. 28. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. pp. 1–153. ISBN 978-82-00-37475-6.