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  1. 1. n. A peculiar toothlike fossil of many forms, found especially in carboniferous rocks. Such fossils are supposed by some to be the teeth of marsipobranch fishes, but they are probably the jaws of annelids. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. the tiny fossil cone-shaped tooth of a primitive vertebrate of order Conodonta Source: wordnet
  3. 3. n. 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 Source: wordnet
  4. 4. A peculiar toothlike fossil of many forms, found especially in carboniferous rocks. Such fossils are supposed by some to be the teeth of marsipobranch fishes, but they are probably the jaws of annelids. Source: webster
  5. 5. A peculiar toothlike fossil of many forms, found especially incarboniferous rocks. Such fossils are supposed by some to be theteeth of marsipobranch fishes, but they are probably the jaws ofannelids. Source: adambom
  6. 6. n the tiny fossil cone-shaped tooth of a primitive vertebrate of order Conodonta n 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 Source: ecdict

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