Mongolodus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of jawless fishes}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Early Cambrian}}

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| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Chordata?

| classis = †Conodont? Chaetognatha?

| ordo = †Protoconodonta

| familia = †Mongolodidae

| genus = †Mongolodus

| genus_authority = Missarzhevsky, 1977{{Cite book|chapter=Konodonty (?) i fosfatnye problematiki kembriya Mongolii i Sibiri |trans-chapter=Conodonts (?) and Cambrian phosphatic problematica from Mongolia and Siberia|author= VV Missarzhevsky |title=Беспозвоночные Палеозоя Монголии |trans-title=Paleozoic Invertebrates of Mongolia|year= 1977|language=Russian}}

| synonyms = †Maldeotaia Singh and Shukla, 1981

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

  • Maldeotaia bandalica
  • Mongolodus longispinus
  • Mongolodus maximi
  • Mongolodus platybasalis
  • Mongolodus sulcus

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Mongolodus is an extinct genus of protoconodonts.

References

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  • {{Cite journal|doi=10.1080/00241160050150230|title=A lower Cambrian protoconodont apparatus from the Placentian of southeastern Newfoundland|journal=Lethaia|volume=33|issue=2|pages=95–102|year=2000|last1=McIlroy|first1=Duncan}}
  • {{Cite journal|doi=10.1098/rspb.2006.3761|pmc=2197202|pmid=17254986|title=Early Cambrian origin of modern food webs: Evidence from predator arrow worms|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences|volume=274|issue=1610|pages=627–633|year=2007|last1=Vannier|first1=J|last2=Steiner|first2=M|last3=Renvoise|first3=E|last4=Hu|first4=S.-X|last5=Casanova|first5=J.-P}}