Histiodella

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Histiodella
Temporal range: Middle Ordovician
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Histiodella

Species
  • Histiodella altifrons
  • Histiodella holodentata
  • Histiodella kristinae
  • Histiodella wuhaiensis

Histiodella is an extinct genus of conodonts.

Histiodella wuhaiensis is from the Ordovician of the Lower Klimoli Formation in China.[2]

Histiodella kristinae forms a conodont zone, in the Table Cove Formation, Table Point, "Middle Table Head" and Table Cove, in the Middle Ordovician of Newfoundland, Canada where the trilobite species Lonchodomas clavulus or Galbagnostus galba are also present.

Use in stratigraphy[edit]

The base of the Darriwilian, the fourth stage of the Ordovician, lies in the upper part of the North American Histiodella altifrons conodont zone.

References[edit]

  1. ^ New conodonts from Joins (Ordovician) Formation of Oklahoma. RW Harris, Oklahoma Geology Notes, 1962
  2. ^ Ordovician conodonts from Dashimen, Wuhai in Inner Mongolia and the significance of the discovery of the Histiodella fauna. Zhihao Wang, Stig Bergström, Yongyi Zhen, Yuandong Zhang; Rongchang Wu and Qing Chen, Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica, 2013, volume 30, issue 4, pages 323–343

External links[edit]

  • "Histiodella" at the Encyclopedia of Life
  • "Histiodella". Fossilworks. Gateway to the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 2 July 2016.