Hindeodus

Hindeodus
Temporal range: Early Triassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Conodonta
Order: Ozarkodinida
Family: Anchignathodontidae
Genus: Hindeodus
Rexroad & Furnish, 1964[1]
Species
  • Hindeodus cristulus
  • Hindeodus gulloides[2]
  • Hindeodus parvus

Hindeodus is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Anchignathodontidae. The generic name Hindeodus is a tribute to George Jennings Hinde.[3]

Biostratigraphic significance

Hindeodus parvus is a species whose first appearance in the fossil beds at Meishan, Changxing County, Zhejiang marks the base of the Triassic, and thus the boundary between the Triassic and Permian.

The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) has assigned the First Appearance Datum of Hindeodus parvus as the defining biological marker for the start of the Induan, 252.2 ± 0.5 million years ago, the first stage of the Triassic.

Sources

  1. Conodonts from the Pella Formation (Mississippian), South-Central Iowa. Carl B. Rexroad and W. M. Furnish, Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Jul., 1964), pages 667-676 (Stable URL, retrieved 07 June 2016)
  2. Guadalupian (Middle Permian) Conodonts of Sponge-Bearing Limestones from the Margins of the Delaware Basin, West Texas. Kozur H. and Mostler H., Geologia Croatica, 1995, 48(2), page 107-128. (abstract, retrieved 08 June 2016)
  3. Pander Society Newsletter #39, July 2007 (retrieved 1st May 2016)
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