Conodonta


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Noun1.Conodonta - extinct order of primitive vertebrates; the precise taxonomy is not clear; in some classifications considered a separate phylum
Conodontophorida, order Conodonta, order Conodontophorida
animal order - the order of animals
Agnatha, superclass Agnatha - superclass of eel-shaped chordates lacking jaws and pelvic fins: lampreys; hagfishes; some extinct forms
conodont - 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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Soft tissue matrix of decalcified pectiniform elements of Hindeodella confluens (Conodonta, Silurian).
Carbon isotope values in conodont elements from the latest Devonian--Early Carboniferous carbonate platform facies (Timan-Pechora Basin)
(2014): New Lower Devonian Polygnathids (Conodonta) from the Spanish Central Pyrenees, with comments on the early radiation of the group.
Palaeodiversity and Palaeoecology of Iberian Ecosystems. New insights into the phanaerozoic biotas from Spain and Portugal
Swadelina new genus (Pennsylvanian Conodonta) a taxon with potential chronostratigraphic significance.
Conodont biostratigraphy of a shale lens overlying the Bucktown Coal Member of the Dugger formation (Pennsylvanian, Desmoinesian), Pike County, Indiana
However, pending formal cladistic analysis of phylogenetic relationships within the Conodonta, we use the order here as presented by Sweet (1988).
Conodonts of the Kivioli Member, Viivikonna Formation (Upper Ordovician) in the Kohtla section, Estonia/Viivikonna kihistu Kivioli kihistiku (Ulem-Ordoviitsium) konodondid Kohtla labiloikes Eestis
Chengyuania, a new name for Pseudogondolella Kozur, 1988 (Conodonta) non Pseudogondolella Yang, 1984 (hybodont fish teeth).
A new conodont from the uppermost Lamar Limestone of the Delaware Basin of west Texas
The Conodonta: Morphology, Taxonomy, Paleoecology, and Evolutionary History of a Long-Extinct Animal Phylum.
The new genus Walliserognathus and the origin of Polygnathoides siluricus (Conodonta, Silurian)

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