Cordylodus

Cordylodus is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Cordylodontidae.

Cordylodus Temporal range: Furongian ~488–416 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Infraphylum:	Agnatha
Class:	†Conodonta
Order:	†Proconodontida
Family:	†Cordylodontidae
Genus:	†Cordylodus Pander, 1856[1]
Species
†C. andresi †C. angulatus †C. caboti †C. caseyi †C. drucei †C. excavatus †C. intermedius †C. lindstromi †C. primitivus †C. prion †C. proavus †C. rotundatus †C. viruanus

Use in stratigraphy

It is suggested that Cordylodus andresi can be a marker of the Cambrian Stage 10.

Distribution

Fossils of Cordylodus have been found in Argentina, Australia, Canada (Quebec), China, Colombia (Tarqui, Huila),^[2] Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden, and the United States, in the states of Alaska, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma (Bromide Formation), Vermont and Wyoming.^[3]

C. horridus has been recovered from the Blakely Sandstone and C. angulatus from the Collier Shale, Ordovician geologic formations in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma.