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Drepanodus

Classification

    Phylum:  
Conodonta
    Class:  
Conodonta
    Order:  
Conodontophorida
    Superfamily:  
Distacodontacea
    Family:  
Protopanderodontidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Drepanodus PANDER, 1856, p. 20
    Type Species:  
D. arcuatus, SD MILLER, 1889, p. 313


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FIG. 94,2. *D. arcuatus, L.Ord. (Didymograptus balticus Subzone), Eu.(Sweden); 2a,b, geniculate and nongeniculate elements, lat. views, X 50 (Bergstrom, n).


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

Eu.-Asia-N. Am.-Australia


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Ord.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Tremadocian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
486.85
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Ord.
    Ending International Stage:  
Hirnantian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
443.07


Description

Apparatus composed of two types of element, one long and slender, recurved to reclined, nongeniculate, the other reclined, more or less geniculate. Cusp acostate in most elements, slightly twisted in some. Basal cavity subtriangular in lateral view, moderately deep. [Apparatus reconstruction: LINDSTROM, 1971, 1973; VAN MAMEL, 1974. VAN MAMEL referred three different types of nongen;cubte clements to the apparatus of D. arcuatus, but additional material is needed to confirm that reconstruction.]




References

Pander, C. H., 1856, Monographie der fossilen Fische des silurischen Systems der russischbaltischen Gouvernements: Akad. Wiss., St. Petersburg, 91 p., 1 text-fig., 7 pl .


Museum or Author Information

Bergstrom, n