Cypridodella is an extinct genus of conodonts.

Cypridodella
Temporal range: Upper Triassic
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Cypridodella

Species
  • Cypridodella bidentata
  • Cypridodella elongata
  • Cypridodella muelleri
  • Cypridodella multidentata
  • Cypridodella postera
  • Cypridodella serrulata
  • Cypridodella spiculata
  • Cypridodella spengleri
  • Cypridodella unialata
  • Cypridodella venusta

The Alaunian, a sub-age also known as "Middle Norian", in the Upper Triassic, begins with the first appearance of the ammonites Drepanites rutherfordi and Cyrtopleuritis bicrenatus and with the conodont Cypridodella multidentata. The stage ends with the first appearance of the ammonites Gnomohalorites cordilleranus and Sagenites quinquepunctatus and the conodont Cypridodella bidentata.

References

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  1. ^ Triassic conodonts from western North America and Europe and their correlation. LC Mosher, Journal of Paleontology, July 1968, Vol. 42, No. 4, pages 895-946 (Stable URL)
  • Two new genera Comperniodontella n. gen. and Galeodontella n. gen., and new multielement of Chirodella Hirschmann, 1959 and Cypridodella Mosher, 1968 (Conodonta) from the Mamonia Complex (Upper Triassic), Cyprus. Christopher C. Ryley and Lars E. Fahraeus, Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie Abhandlungen, 1994, volume 1931, pages 21–54
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  • "Cypridodella". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  • "Cypridodella". The Encyclopedia of Life.