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Protohertzina

Classification

    Phylum:  
Conodonta
    Class:  
Conodonta
    Order:  
Paraconodontida
    Superfamily:  
Furnishinacea
    Family:  
Furnishinidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Protohertzina MISSARZHEVSKY, 1973, p. 54
    Type Species:  
P. anabarica, OD


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Fig. 65, 3. *P. anabarica, uppermost Precam., USSR, lat. view, about X70 (Missarzhevsky, n)


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Geographic Distribution

Asia (Sib.-Kazakh.)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Uppermost Precam.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Ediacaran
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
635
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
L.Cam. (Tommot.)
    Ending International Stage:  
Cambrian Stage 2
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
521


Description

Symmetrical, erect, slender, coniform elements with large basal cavity extending nearly to tip of cusp, anterior rounded, posterior with prominent keel, some elements also with posterolateral keels




References

Missarzhevsky, V. V., 1973, Konodontoobraznye organizmy iz pogranichtsykh sloyebv Kembriya i Dokembiya Sibirskoy platformy i Kazakhstana: in Problemy paleontologii i biostratigrafii nizhnego Kembriya i dalnego vostoka: Tr. Inst. Geol. Geofiz. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Sib. Otd., p. 53-57 (Moscow). [Conodontlike organisms from the boundary beds of the Cambrian and Precambrian of the Siberian Platform and Kazakhstan: in Problems of paleontology and biostratigraphy of the Lower Cambrian of Siberia and the Far East.] Moore, R. C., 1962, Conodont classification and nomenclature: in R. C. Moore (ed.), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part W, Miscellanea, p. W92-W98, text-fig. 49, Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press (New York and Lawrence).


Museum or Author Information

Missarzhevsky, n