Protohertzina

 ( Cambrian Animals Of North America ) 

Protohertzina is a genus of conodonts ( or ) or, possibly, Chaetognatha, found at the beginning of the Cambrian explosion.

Protoconodonts are an extinct taxonomic group of conodonts.Zooproblematica and mollusca from the Lower Cambrian Meishucun section (Yunnan, China) and taxonomy and systematics of the Cambrian small shelly fossils of China. P. Y. Parkhaev and Y. Demidenko, Paleontological Journal, 2010, volume 44, issue 8, pages 883-1161, Chaetognatha (also known as arrow worms) were thought possibly to be related to some of the animals grouped with the . The conodonts themselves, however, are thought to be early vertebrates. It is now thought that protoconodont elements (e.g., Protohertzina anabarica Missarzhevsky, 1973), are probably grasping spines of chaetognaths rather than teeth of conodonts.

Protohertzina fossils have been found in the Ingta Formation of Canada.

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Use in stratigraphy The earliest known fossils of the late Precambrian and early Cambrian come from the small shelly fossil assemblage of the Anabarites trisulcatus Zone of the Lower Nemakit-Daldynian Stage, Siberia. They are analogous to China's Anabarites trisulcatus-Protohertzina anabarica Zone of the basal Meishucunian Stage.

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