Conodont | Microfossil, Ancient Marine Animal | Britannica
conodont, minute toothlike fossil composed of the mineral apatite (calcium phosphate); conodonts are among the most frequently occurring fossils in marine sedimentary rocks of Paleozoic age.
What are conodonts? - The Australian Museum
Conodonts are a group of extinct microfossils known from the Late Cambrian (approximately 500 million years ago) to the Late Triassic (about 200 million years ago). They are the only known …
Conodonts - UCL
Conodont elements are phosphatic tooth-like structures whose affinity and function is now believed to be part of the feeding apparatus of an extinct early vertebrate.
The Most Abundant Creature You’ve Never Heard Of
2018年10月13日 · In fact, conodonts are one of the most abundant creatures that many people have never heard of. Conodont elements were first described in 1856, and were thought to be …
The origin of conodonts and of vertebrate mineralized skeletons
2013年10月16日 · Conodonts are an extinct group of jawless vertebrates whose tooth-like elements are the earliest instance of a mineralized skeleton in the vertebrate lineage 1,2, …
Conodonts: Past, present, future - Cambridge Core
Conodonts were mostly small, elongate, eel-shaped marine animals that inhabited a variety of environments in Paleozoic and Triassic seas. Although long enigmatic, conodonts are now …
What are Conodonts? - AllTheScience
2024年5月21日 · Conodonts are a group of extinct vertebrates that resemble eels. They swam the oceans of the world between the late Cambrian and late Triassic period (about 500 to 200 …
Conodonts - SpringerLink
Conodonts, the most important and widespread, though enigmatic, Paleozoic micro-fossils, were first described by C. H. Pander in 1856. They range from Lower Cambrian to Upper Triassic …
Conodonts - SpringerLink
2019年12月13日 · Conodonts are considered as active swimmers of the water column. The conodonts are an important microfossil group for dating Paleozoic shallow-marine carbonates …
Jawless vertebrate had world's sharpest teeth | Nature
2012年3月14日 · Conodonts used minuscule tooth points to apply large pressure to food. An extinct primitive marine vertebrate had the sharpest dental structures ever known — with tips …
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