Sentences with phrase «living conodont»

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.

Not exact matches

Another standard biostratigraphic method — linking the timing of different rock layers by the comings and goings of fossilized teeth of tiny eellike creatures called conodonts — also couldn't be used, because the same species didn't live in cool and tropical waters.

Conodonts, tiny eel - like creatures that lived from 520 million to 205 million years ago and were our earliest vertebrate relatives, have long been one of paleontology's great enigmas.