Sentences with phrase «conodont fossil»

Mark Purnell and colleagues at the University of Leicester have found the most complete conodont fossil to date, and used it to reconstruct the animal's anatomy.

«We had to go through several tons of rock to look at tiny conodont fossils,» Wignall said.

Not exact matches

Ordovician strata are characterized by numerous and diverse trilobites and conodonts (phosphatic fossils with a tooth - like appearance) found in sequences of shale, limestone, dolostone, and sandstone.

The photos showed what the three - dimensional models would look like if they were pressed flat, like fossils — and the photos that looked most like the real fossils told the researchers which model was most like a living conodont.

3) Fossil teeth are made of durable enamel, and like pollen, some types are widespread — «conodonts» in particular, have been used to trace temperatures.