Image: Serratognathus diversus An

Serratognathus diversus An, 1981 from Guizhou, South China. 

Photographer:

Yong Yi Zhen

Rights:

© Australian Museum

Scientific name:

Serratognathus diversus

Additional information

Diagnosis

Species of Serratognathus with an apparatus including three morphotypes, symmetrical Sa (D), asymmetrical Sb (B, G-H), and strongly asymmetrical Sc (C, E-F, I-O) elements bearing a prominent and laterally compressed cusp. Scale bars 100 µm unless otherwise indicated.

Age

Early Ordovician (early Floian), about 476-478 Ma.

Distribution

China.

Reference

Zhen, Y. Y., Percival, I.G., Liu, J.B. & Zhang, Y.D., 2009: Conodont fauna and biostratigraphy of the Honghuayuan Formation (Early Ordovician) of Guizhou, South China. Alcheringa 33 (3), 257-295.

Last Updated: 7 October 2009

Tags conodonts, microfossils,