Sweetognathus is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Sweetognathidae that evolved at the beginning of the Permian period (298.9 Ma), in near-equatorial, shallow-water seas.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | †Conodonta |
| Order: | †Ozarkodinida |
| Family: | †Sweetognathidae |
| Genus: | †Sweetognathus Clark, 1972[1] |
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The genus is characterized by pustulose ornamentation on a wide, flat-topped carina. It originated in the earliest Permian as S. expansus from Diplognathodus edentulus.[3]
Sweetognathus forms a species complex.[4]
The genus is named after paleontologist Walter C. Sweet.
It has been found that recurrent parallel species pairs have occurred throughout Sweetognathus evolution between populations originating in Bolivia, the Mid-Western Unitied States, and Russia.[2] Parallelisms have been found to occur in the denticle morphologies of their platform elements.[2]
Use in stratigraphy
editAccording to the List of Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points, the species Sweetognathus whitei made its first appearance during the Artinskian (some 290.1 ± 0.26 mya), in the Permian of the Ural Mountains.
The species Sweetognathus merrelli is near first appearance during the Sakmarian (some 295.0 ± 0.18 mya) in the Permian of Kondurovsky, Orenburg, Russia.[5]
References
edit- ^ Early Permian crisis and its bearing on Permo-Triassic conodont taxonomy. DL Clark, Geologica et Palaeontologica, 1972
- ^ a b c Petryshen, W.; Henderson, C. M.; De Baets, K.; Jarochowska, E. (2020-11-25). "Evidence of parallel evolution in the dental elements of Sweetognathus conodonts". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 287 (1939): 20201922. doi:10.1098/rspb.2020.1922. PMC 7739493. PMID 33203328.
- ^ Evolution and distribution of the conodonts Sweetognathus and Iranognathus and related genera during the Permian, and their implications for climate change. S Mei, CM Henderson, BR Wardlaw - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, 2002
- ^ The Sweetognathus complex in the Permian of China: implications for evolution and homeomorphy. W Cheng-Yuan, SM Ritter… - Journal of Paleontology, 1987
- ^ Proposal for the base of the Sakmarian Stage: GSSP in the Kondurovsky Section, southern Urals, Russia. BI Chuvashov, VV Chernykh, EY Leven, VI Davydov, Permophiles, 2002
External links
edit- "Sweetognathus". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 5 June 2016.
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