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noun
Any of several extinct fish-like chordates having cone-like teeth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, history, human-sciences, natural-sciences, paleontology, sciences
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noun
A microfossil tooth of such an animal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: jawless vertebrate, jawless fish, agnathan
noun
the tiny fossil cone-shaped tooth of a primitive vertebrate of order Conodonta
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: tooth
History
From Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone”) + -odont.
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