Micropaleontology, Vol. 56, No. 1/2, Guadalupian (Middle Permian) microfauna of West Texas (2010), pp. 233-253 (21 pages) The original type section of the Reef Trail Member (uppermost part of the Bell ...

Surprisingly, that honour goes to a tiny, almost eel-like creature that lived long before either of those beasts, known as ...

Research drawing on high-resolution microscopy and quantitative comparison, published in The Royal Society Publishing, has shown that the tips of some conodont elements were sharper than the teeth of ...

Of the four symmetry classes of conodont element-pairs recognized herein, two involve asymmetry. Asymmetry in the conodont-bearing organism need not preclude the concept of a nektonic mode of life, ...

A fang-like tooth on double upper lips, spiny teeth on the tongue and a pulley-like mechanism to move the tongue backwards and forwards -- this bizarre bite belongs to a conodont and, thanks to a ...

Our skeletons are time capsules. Even though the whole marks us as a distinct species, we’re also a collection of elements that hearken back to our deep history. Teeth are among the oldest of these ...

Focus: Reconstructing the biostratigraphy and palaeogeography of conodont faunas from the Middle East Our conodont research focuses on several important Ordovician and Silurian faunas from the Middle ...

type and figured material of George Jennings Hinde (1879), which represents our oldest conodont collection material from Alan Higgins, published in the 1960s type and figured material from the ...

The tiny teeth of a long-extinct vertebrate – with tips only two micrometres across: one twentieth the width of a human hair – are the sharpest dental structures ever measured, new research from the ...

Mysterious fossils can be used to tell time in the deep past. For decades, one of the most abundant kinds of fossils on Earth, numbering in the millions of specimens, was a mystery to paleontologists.