Cervicornoides minnesotensis Stauffer, 1940

1940 Cervicornoides minnesotensis n. sp. - Stauffer, pag. 421, Plate 58, fig. 23.

Original description - Bar laterally compressed but fairly thick in middle part, flattened, slightly arched, and bowed at the posterior; a small, fairly deep pit with flaring inner margin occurs beneath the cusp, and the under side of posterior limb is keeled. Cusp of moderate size, set inward slightly out of line with denticles, and followed by a series of denticles of irregular size, the two or three immediately succeeding the cusp being smaller, but the fifth or sixth being much enlarged. The anterior limb is fragmentary on the specimen, but the dentition shows a series of varying size.

Occurrence - Clay above the limestone, brick and tile plant, Austin, Minnesota, U. S. A. (Stauffer, 1940).

Age range - Devonian (Stauffer, 1940).

Holotype - B 5545; Geological Museum, University of Minnesota.

References:

- Stauffer, C. R. (1940) - Conodonts from the Devonian and associated clays of Minnesota. Journal of Paleontology, vol. 14(5): pp. 417-435.