Order Conodonta (Noun)
Meaning
Extinct order of primitive vertebrates; the precise taxonomy is not clear; in some classifications considered a separate phylum.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Conodonts with their characteristic order Conodonta fossils were a crucial link in the early evolution of vertebrates.
- Extensive research has been conducted on the fossils from the early to mid Cambrian representing order Conodonta but uncertainties prevail over taxonomical exactitude.
- Estimation shows about forty fossil teeth shapes making this genus probably composed as monotypes even grouped possibly placed through consideration entirely Order Conodonta and can indicate both a diet preference over diverse ecosystems from that span the worldwide eon Paleozoic.
- Order Conodonta specimens have been an enigmatic discovery in this new Cambrian phosphate bone-bed embedded within finely laminated phosphate rock by inhumation apparently fossil processes with still largely inconclusive understanding still the debate continues even though the period was described most recent as lower and mid- Cambrian.
- Hypothetically some experts suggest members from order Conodonta may have been more common than perceived though fossils turned rare over a lengthier than foreseen era all considered significantly in more recent geological sequences specifically found within extremely older Chinese fossil beds but research continues and is uncompleted.