Neospathodus

Platform element of Neospathodus, from Sweet (1988).

Belongs within: Gondolellidae.

Neospathodus is a genus of conodonts known from the early Triassic represented only by segminate platform (Pa) elements, the remaining positions of the standard apparatus perhaps lacking mineralised elements (Sweet 1988).

Neospathodus Mosher 1968 S88
    |--N. arcucristatus RR79
    |--N. bransoni CB86
    |--N. collinsoni S88
    |--N. conservativus K79
    |--N. constricta TE01
    |--N. cristagalli K79
    |--N. dieneri TE01
    |--N. divergens RR79
    |--N. homeri TE01
    |--N. hungaricus TE01
    |--N. kummeli K79
    |--N. newpassensis K79
    |--N. pakistanensis TE01
    |--N. timorensis K79
    |--N. triangularis TE01
    `--N. waageni S88

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[CB86] Chen D.-Q. & Bao H. 1986. Lower Permian ostracodes from the Chihsia Formation of Jurong and Longtan, Jiangsu Province. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica 3 (2): 107–132.

[K79] Kummel, B. 1979. Triassic. In: Robison, R. A., & C. Teichert (eds) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt A. Introduction. Fossilisation (Taphonomy), Biogeography and Biostratigraphy pp. A351–A389. The Geological Society of America, Inc.: Boulder (Colorado), and The University of Kansas: Lawrence (Kansas).

[RR79] Ross, C. A., & J. R. P. Ross. 1979. Permian. In: Robison, R. A., & C. Teichert (eds) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt A. Introduction. Fossilisation (Taphonomy), Biogeography and Biostratigraphy pp. A291–A350. The Geological Society of America, Inc.: Boulder (Colorado), and The University of Kansas: Lawrence (Kansas).

[S88] Sweet, W. C. 1988. The Conodonta: Morphology, taxonomy, paleoecology, and evolutionary history of a long extinct animal phylum. Clarendon Press: Oxford.

[TE01] Tong, J., & D. H. Erwin. 2001. Triassic gastropods of the southern Qinling Mountains, China. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 92: 1–47.