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
The Silurian strata containing abundant conodont fossils are well developed and comformable with the overlying Devonian strata in the Baizitian region, northern Yanbian, Sichuan. 四川省盐边县北部稗子田地区的志留系发育良好,牙形刺化石极为丰富,与上覆泥盆系连续沉积,并呈整合接触。