Conodont

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several extinct fish-like chordates having cone-like teeth.

    "Remains of conodonts, which may be invertebrates or primitive vertebrates, have also become known from the tuffites and bituminous slates of Monte San Giorgio, which became famous for their fish and marine reptile remains."

  2. 2
    small (2 inches long) extinct eellike fish with a finned tail and a notochord and having cone-shaped teeth containing cellular bone; late Cambrian to late Triassic; possible predecessor of the cyclostomes wordnet
  3. 3
    A microfossil tooth of such an animal.
  4. 4
    the tiny fossil cone-shaped tooth of a primitive vertebrate of order Conodonta wordnet

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conodont animalconodont elementconodont organismconodont toothconodont vertebratefossil element

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"Remains of conodonts, which may be invertebrates or primitive vertebrates, have also become known from the tuffites and bituminous slates of Monte San Giorgio, which became famous for their fish and marine reptile remains."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone”) + -odont.

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