Image: Serratognathus bilobatus Lee

Serratognathus bilobatus Lee, 1970 from the Canning Basin, Western Australia. 

Photographer:

Yong Yi Zhen

Rights:

© Australian Museum

Scientific name:

Serratognathus bilobatus

Additional information

Diagnosis

Species of Serratognathus with an apparatus, including three mophotypes, symmetrical Sa (A), asymmetrical Sb (B-F), and strongly asymmetrical Sc (G-L) elements bearing a small cusp. Scale bars 100 µm unless otherwise indicated.

Age

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

Distribution

Australia, China, Korea, Malaysia, and Kazakhstan

Reference

Zhen, Y. Y. & Nicoll, R.S., 2009: Biogeographic and biostratigraphic implications of the Serratognathus bilobatus fauna (Conodonta) from the Emanuel Formation (Early Ordovician) of the Canning Basin, Western Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 61 (1), 1-30.

Last Updated: 7 October 2009

Tags conodonts, microfossils,