Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.1144/jm.12.2.241
https://doi.org/10.1144/jm.12.2.241
01 Dec 1993
 | 01 Dec 1993

The taxonomy and apparatus structure of the Silurian distomodontid conodont Coryssognathus Link & Druce, 1972

C. Giles Miller and Richard J. Aldridge

Abstract. Collections of discrete conodont elements from the Upper Whitcliffe Formation of the Welsh Borderland indicate a septimembrate plan for the feeding apparatus of Coryssognathus, comprising Pa, Pb, Pc, M, Sa/Sb, Sb and Sc elements. Each element is paired, and relative frequencies suggest that there was a total of 16 elements in the apparatus, including two indistinguishable pairs of Sc elements. Associated small coniform elements appear to represent discrete denticles of crown tissue that were sequentially incorporated into multidenticulate elements during ontogeny.

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