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Mockina Temporal range: Late Triassic, Norian–Rhaetian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	†Conodonta
Genus:	†Mockina Kozur, 1972
Type species
Mockina postera † Kozur & Mostler, 1971
Other species
†M. bidentata Mosher, 1968 †M. matthewi Orchard, 1991 †M. medionorica Kozur, 2003 †M. multidentata? Mosher, 1970 †M. serrulata Orchard, 1991 †M. slovakensis Kozur, 1972 †M. spiculata Orchard, 1991 †M. spinosa? Orchard, 2018 †M. tozeri Orchard, 1991 †M. transitia? Orchard, 1991 †M. vrielyncki? Kozur & Mock, 1972 †M. zapfei? Kozur, 1973

Mockina is an extinct genus of Late Triassic (mid Norian-early Rhaetian) conodonts. Several species of Mockina are used as index fossils for the Alaunian (middle Norian) and Sevatian (late Norian) substages of the Triassic. One species, Mockina bidentata, is considered to be ancestral to Misikella and Parvigondolella, some of the last known genera of conodonts. Mockina has occasionally been synonymized with Epigondolella based on the assumption that it represents Epigondolella specimens which live in resource-poor environments. Mockina/Epigondolella multidentata has occasionally been considered to belong to its own genus, Orchardella.

References

1. Rigo, Manuel; Mazza, Michele; Karádi, Viktor; Nicora, Alda (2018), Tanner, Lawrence H. (ed.), "New Upper Triassic Conodont Biozonation of the Tethyan Realm", The Late Triassic World: Earth in a Time of Transition, Topics in Geobiology, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 189–235, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-68009-5_6, hdl:11577/3258473, ISBN 978-3-319-68009-5
2. Karádi, Viktor; Cau, Andrea; Mazza, Michele; Rigo, Manuel (2020-07-01). "The last phase of conodont evolution during the Late Triassic: Integrating biostratigraphic and phylogenetic approaches". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Global Events impacting conodont evolution. 549: 109144. Bibcode:2020PPP...54909144K. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.03.045. ISSN 0031-0182. S2CID 134898058.

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