Ozarkodina is an extinct genus of in the family Spathognathodontidae.
Use in stratigraphy
Ozarkodina snajdri forms a subdivision of the
Pseudomonoclimacis latilobus graptolite zone in the
Burgsvik beds Silurian formation in Sweden.
[Conodont-based revisions of the Late Ludfordian on Gotland, Sweden. Jeppsson L., GFF, December 2005, volume 127, issue 4, pages 273–282, Retrieved 2007-08-10.] An
Ozarkodina snajdri crispa zone has also been identified in the Wills Creek in Virginia.
[Harris, A.G., Stamm, N.R., Weary, D.J., Repetski, J.E., Stamm, R.G., and Parker, R.A., 1994, Conodont color alteration index (CAI) map and conodont-based age determinations for the Winchester 30' x 60' quadrangle and adjacent area, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map, MF-2239, 40 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:100,000 [1]]
Ozarkodina derenjalensis is found in the Silurian of the Niur Formation in Iran.[A new Llandovery epoch prioniodontid conodont with three P elements from Iran and associated species. Peep Männik, C. Giles Miller and Vachik Hairapetian, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2015, volume 60, issue 3, pages 733–746, ]
The Kellwasser event in the Devonian which saw the extinction of all Ozarkodina species is reported in the list of Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points.
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