2013/03/01 by Richard J. Aldridge, Duncan Murdock, Sarah E. Gabbott +1 · 3 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Materials Science · #Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition #Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01194.x
openalex publication_date 2013/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/14
Abstract: Natural assemblages of a new conodont taxon, Notiodella keblon , from the Upper Ordovician Soom Shale Lagerstätte of South Africa contain 17 elements. This is the first time that a 17‐element apparatus plan has been unequivocally demonstrated in conodonts. The apparatus comprises paired P 1 , P 2 , P 3 , M, S 1 , S 2 , S 3 and S 4 elements and an unpaired, axial S 0 element and provides a new template for use in the reconstruction of apparatuses from the collections of dispersed elements, particularly for those with icrion‐bearing P 1 elements and perhaps for other balognathids.