Utahconus
Extinct genus of jawless fishes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Utahconus is an extinct genus of conodonts.
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Genus: | †Utahconus Miller 1980[1] |
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†Paltodus utahensis Miller, 1969 | |
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Utahconus purmamarcensis, U. scandodiformis and U. tortibasis are from the Late Cambrian (late Furongian) or early Ordovician (Tremadocian) of the Santa Rosita Formation in the Tilcara Range, Cordillera Oriental of Jujuy in Argentina.[2]
According to J. John Sepkoski, Jr., it's in the order Conodontophoria in the class Conodonta.[3]