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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
conodont /ˈkəʊnədɒnt/

▶noun Palaeontology an extinct marine creature with a long worm-like body and numerous small teeth, now believed to be the earliest vertebrate.

■ (also conodont element) a tooth of a conodont, often found as a fossil.

– origin C19: from mod. L. Conodonta (name of a class), from Gk kōnos ‘cone’ + odous, odont- ‘tooth’.

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