单词 | conodont |
释义 | conodont (once / 1313257 pages) n WORD FAMILY conodont: conodonts USAGE EXAMPLESAmong vertebrates, the earliest mineralized tissue was found in the feeding apparatus of extinct jawless fishes, the conodonts. Nature(Jan 08, 2014) Past work examining how some conodonts grew the hard spurs in their mouths shows that it was startlingly similar to how modern animals grow teeth. Scientific American(Oct 16, 2013) The team found that the conodonts did not process food using a mechanism based on muscular force, as mammals do. Scientific American(Mar 15, 2012) 1n 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 Hyper agnathan, jawless fish, jawless vertebrate eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms 2n the tiny fossil cone-shaped tooth of a primitive vertebrate of order Conodonta Hyper tooth hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense |
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