Mockina is an extinct genus of Late Triassic (mid Norian-early Rhaetian) conodonts. Several species of Mockina are used as index fossils for the Alaunian (middle Norian) and Sevatian (late Norian) substages of the Triassic.[1] One species, Mockina bidentata, is considered to be ancestral to Misikella and Parvigondolella, some of the last known genera of conodonts.[2] Mockina has occasionally been synonymized with Epigondolella based on the assumption that it represents Epigondolella specimens which live in resource-poor environments. Mockina/Epigondolella multidentata has occasionally been considered to belong to its own genus, Orchardella.

Mockina
Temporal range: Late Triassic,
Norian–Rhaetian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Conodonta
Genus: Mockina
Kozur, 1972
Type species
Mockina postera
Kozur & Mostler, 1971
Other species
  • M. bidentata Mosher, 1968
  • M. matthewi Orchard, 1991
  • M. medionorica Kozur, 2003
  • M. multidentata? Mosher, 1970
  • M. serrulata Orchard, 1991
  • M. slovakensis Kozur, 1972
  • M. spiculata Orchard, 1991
  • M. spinosa? Orchard, 2018
  • M. tozeri Orchard, 1991
  • M. transitia? Orchard, 1991
  • M. vrielyncki? Kozur & Mock, 1972
  • M. zapfei? Kozur, 1973

References

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  1. ^ Rigo, Manuel; Mazza, Michele; Karádi, Viktor; Nicora, Alda (2018), Tanner, Lawrence H. (ed.), "New Upper Triassic Conodont Biozonation of the Tethyan Realm", The Late Triassic World: Earth in a Time of Transition, Topics in Geobiology, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 189–235, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-68009-5_6, hdl:11577/3258473, ISBN 978-3-319-68009-5
  2. ^ Karádi, Viktor; Cau, Andrea; Mazza, Michele; Rigo, Manuel (2020-07-01). "The last phase of conodont evolution during the Late Triassic: Integrating biostratigraphic and phylogenetic approaches". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Global Events impacting conodont evolution. 549: 109144. Bibcode:2020PPP...54909144K. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.03.045. ISSN 0031-0182. S2CID 134898058.