Oulodus, Branson and Mehl, 1933

Waid, Christopher B. T. & Cramer, Bradley D., 2017, Telychian (Llandovery, Silurian) conodonts from the LaPorte City Formation of eastern Iowa, USA (East-Central Iowa Basin) and their implications for global Telychian conodont biostratigraphic correlation, Palaeontologia Electronica 42 (6), pp. 1-37 : 26

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Oulodus
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Genus OULODUS Branson and Mehl, 1933

Type species. Oulodus mediocris Branson and Mehl, 1933 .

Diagnosis. Apparatus consists of Sa, Sb, Sc, M, Pb, and Pa elements. Denticles are round in cross section, peg-like, widely separated, very large relative to element size, and are often strongly curved. See Wang and Aldridge (2010) for detailed description of the apparatus of this genus.

Wang, C. and Aldridge, R. 2010. Silurian conodonts from the Yangtze Platform, South China. Special Papers in Paleontology, 83: 1 - 136.