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Conodonta

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n.1.an extinct order of primitive vertebrates; the precise taxonomy is not clear; in some classifications it is considered a separate phylum.
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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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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 ... by Viira, Viive; Aldridge, Richard J.; Curtis, Stephanie / Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences: Geology
SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY Class CONODONTA Eichenberg, 1930 sensu Clark, 1981 Order OZARKODINIDA Dzik, 1976 Family KOCKELELLIDAE Klapper, 1981 Genus Ctenognathodus Fay, 1959 Type species.
Wenlock-Ludlow boundary beds and conodonts of Saaremaa Island, ... by Viira, Viive; Einasto, Rein / Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences: Geology
 
 
 
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