''Furnishina'' is an extinct genus of
conodont
Conodonts (Greek ''kōnos'', "cone", + ''odont'', "tooth") are an extinct group of agnathan (jawless) vertebrates resembling eels, classified in the class Conodonta. For many years, they were known only from their tooth-like oral elements, which ...
s in the family
Furnishinidae
Furnishinidae is an extinct family of conodonts in the order Paraconodontida.
Genera
Genera are:
* †''Furnishina''
* †'' Muellerodus''
* †'' Proacodus''
* †'' Problematoconites''
* †'' Prooneotodus''
* †'' Prosagittodontus''
* †'' ...
from the
Cambrian
The Cambrian Period ( ; sometimes symbolized C with bar, Ꞓ) was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 53.4 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran Period 538.8 million ...
.
The genus name is a tribute to American paleontologist
William M. Furnish.
References
External links
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''Furnishina''at
fossilworks
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The Paleobiology Database is an online resource for information on the distribution and classification of fossil animals ...
.org (retrieved 8 May 2016)
Paraconodontida
Conodont genera
Cambrian conodonts
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Cambrian genus extinctions