What is the meaning of conodont?

noun

  • The tiny fossil cone-shaped tooth of a primitive vertebrate of order Conodonta.
  • 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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