Mockina

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 PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Infraphylum:	Agnatha
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