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Bookmark or Share- Jawless Vertebrate Had World's Sharpest TeethThe razor-sharp teeth belonged to conodonts, jawless vertebrates that evolved some 500 million years ago in the Precambrian eon and went extinct during the Triassic period, around 200 million...
- Conodonts - Encyclopedia.comconodonts Small, phosphatic, fossil teeth, common in rocks from the Cambrian to Triassic (and formerly placed in the category Conodontophora), that belonged to elongated, fish-like animals closely related to the vertebrates.
- The origin of conodonts and of vertebrate mineralized skeletonsConodonts are an extinct group of jawless vertebrates whose tooth-like elements are the earliest instance of a mineralized skeleton in the vertebrate lineage 1,2, inspiring the ‘inside-out ...
- Conodont - WikipediaConodonts (Greek kōnos, "cone", + odont, "tooth") are an extinct group of jawless vertebrates, classified in the class Conodonta. They are primarily known from their hard, mineralised tooth-like structures called "conodont elements" that in life were present in the oral cavity and used to process food.
- Conodonts - UCLConodont elements are phosphatic tooth-like structures whose affinity and function is now believed to be part of the feeding apparatus of an extinct early vertebrate.
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