NOUN | animal | conodont | the tiny fossil cone-shaped tooth of a primitive vertebrate of order Conodonta |
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animal | conodont | small (2 inches long) extinct eellike fish with a finned tail and a notochord and having cone-shaped teeth containing cellular bone |
Meaning | The tiny fossil cone-shaped tooth of a primitive vertebrate of order Conodonta. | |
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Broader | tooth | Hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates |
Meaning | 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. | |
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Member of | Conodonta, order Conodonta, Conodontophorida, order Conodontophorida | Extinct order of primitive vertebrates |
Broader | jawless vertebrate, jawless fish, agnathan | eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws / jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms |
Spanish | conodonta | |
Catalan | conodont |
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