conodontn.
/ˈkəʊnəʊdɒnt/ Palaeontology.
A small conical toothlike glistening body, found in Silurian and other ancient strata, and at first supposed to be a tooth of a cyclostomous fish; now more generally considered to be the remains of some invertebrate animal.
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conodont1859
1859 Owen in Encycl. Brit. XVII. 116/1 The writer finds no form of spine, denticle, or hooklet in any Echinoderm to match the Conodonts; and concludes that they have most analogy with the spines..of naked Molluscs or Annelides.
1879 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. (ed. 2) II. 122 Much difficulty was felt by scientific men in accepting Pander's view that the ‘Conodonts’ were the teeth of Fishes.
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