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Description: Conodont elements are commonly found in marine deposits and are the only fossil remains of a soft-bodied creature. This article outlines the history of their study, their biology and life cycle.
Conodont 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. Early ideas concluded that the conodontophorid was a soft bodied, bilaterally symmetrical nektonic organism, although there is still much debate concerning possible benthic, nektonic or combined mode of life. Conodont elements are composed of calcium carbonate fluorapatite with additional organic matter. They are found in marine deposits, commonly in black shales associated with graptolites, radiolarians, fish remains, brachiopods, cephalopods, trilobites and palaeocopid ostracods.
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| Page title: | Conodonts |
| Keywords: | micropalaeontology, micropaleontology, micropal, microfossils, nannofossils, acritarchs, calcareous nannofossils, chitinozoa, conodonts, diatoms, dinoflagellates, dinocycsts, forams, foraminifera, ostracods, palynology, rads, radiolaria, spores, pollen |
| Description: | This teaching and learning web-site is intended as an introduction to micropalaeontology. Micropalaeontology is the study of microfossils (any fossil generally less than 1mm in size). This page covers conodonts. |
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