Modelling the Conodont Skeleton: A New Reconstruction for the Conodont Mouth
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The conodont controversies.
The discovery of fossilized conodont soft tissues has led to suggestions that these enigmatic animals were among the earliest vertebrates and that they were macrophagous, using their oropharyngeal skeletal apparatus to capture and process prey. These conclusions have proved controversial. There is now a consensus that conodonts belong within the chordates, but their position within the clade is...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Paleontological Society Special Publications
سال: 1996
ISSN: 2475-2622,2475-2681
DOI: 10.1017/s2475262200001088