Mockina is an
extinctgenus 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.[1] One species, Mockina bidentata, is considered to be ancestral to Misikella and Parvigondolella, some of the last known genera of conodonts.[2]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.