Zieglerodina podolica Drygant, 2010

Drygant, Daniel & Szaniawski, Hubert, 2012, Lochkovian conodonts from Podolia, Ukraine, and their stratigraphic significance, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (4), pp. 833-861 : 853

Zieglerodina podolica Drygant, 2010

Fig. 12H, I, J.

?1980 Pandorinellina cf. praeoptima (Mashkova) ; Schönlaub 1980a: pl. 19: 8 [only].

1984 Spathognathodus remscheidensis Ziegler ; Drygant: pl. 13: 17, 21 [only].

2010 Zieglerodina podolica nov. sp.; Drygant 2010: 52, pl. 1: 11, 12.

Material.—25 Pa specimens from the uppermost part of Dzvenyhorod, Khudykivtsi, and Tseliyiv formations. Sections and samples: 33/1e, 105/1, 37/A, 37B/1, 16/1, 1b, 2, 3, 4, 16/ 45 m.

Remarks.—The species is related to Zieglerodina remscheidensis ( Ziegler, 1960) and Z. klonkensis Carls, Slavík, and Valenzuela−Ríos, 2007 . It differs from the typical representatives of the first by comparatively long (0.6–1.0 mm) and high (0.3 mm) anterior part and lower (0.1–0.22 mm) posterior part of the blade, slightly convex anterior margin and narrower anterior denticles. Second of the species characterize arched lower margin of the blade, as well as more regularly and tightly arranged denticles which continue to the anterior end of the blade. Somewhat similar is also Zieglerodina brocki (Farrell, 2004) but it has shorter and higher blade, higher anterior denticles and smaller basal cavity lips.

Stratigraphic and geographic range.—Uppermost part of “ Ozarkodina ” eosteinhornensis and Caudicriodus hesperius Zone in Podolia, lower Lochkovian in Barrandian.