Utahconus

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]

Utahconus
Temporal range: Furongian–Tremadocian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
†Conodonta
Genus:
†Utahconus

Miller 1980[1]
Type species
†Paltodus utahensis
Miller, 1969
Species
  • †Utahconus longipinnatus Ji & Barnes, 1994
  • †Utahconus oneotensis (Furnish, 1938)
  • †Utahconus purmamarcensis Zeballo & Albanesi, 2013
  • †Utahconus scandodiformis Zeballo & Albanesi, 2013
  • †Utahconus tarutaoensis
  • †Utahconus tenuis Miller, 1980
  • †Utahconus tortibasis Zeballo & Albanesi, 2013
  • †Utahconus utahensis (Miller, 1969)

Utahconus is an extinct genus of conodonts.

According to J. John Sepkoski, Jr., it's in the order Conodontophoria in the class Conodonta.[3]

References
  1. Miller, James F. (1980). "Taxonomic revisions of some Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician Conodonts with comments on their Evolution". The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions. 99: 35–37. hdl:1808/3732. ISSN 0075-5052.
  2. Zeballo, Fernando J.; Albanesi, Guillermo L. (2013). "New conodont species and biostratigraphy of the Santa Rosita Formation (upper Furongian-Tremadocian) in the Tilcara Range, Cordillera Oriental of Jujuy, Argentina" (PDF). Geological Journal. 48 (2–3): 181–187. doi:10.1002/gj.2425.
  3. Sepkoski, Jr., J. John (2002). Jablonski, David; Foote, Michael (eds.). "A Compendium of Fossil Marine Animal Genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 548.


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