Mockina Temporal range: Late Triassic, | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Infraphylum: | Agnatha |
Class: | † Conodonta |
Genus: | † Mockina Kozur, 1972 |
Type species | |
Mockina postera† Kozur & Mostler, 1971 | |
Other species | |
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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 .