(Phys.org) —Researchers from the University's of Bristol and Birmingham in the U.K. have made progress in identifying the ways that a conodont used its teeth—the earliest ever found in a vertebrate.

The collections are being digitised and are accessible via the Data Portal. We curate a number of historically significant conodont collections: type and figured material of George Jennings Hinde ...

For much of the twentieth century, sharks and large reptiles were assumed to define the upper limits of dental sharpness in the history of life. That assumption has been revised by detailed ...

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 ...

A Promissum conodont, which range from 5 to 50 cm in length and named after unusual, cone-like teeth fossils, and which are hypothesized to be the ancestors of modern lampreys and hagfishes. Very few ...

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 ...

"This is Contribution V, the fifth and final volume of proceedings of the ECOS V Meeting held in July 1988 at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt"--Foreword. siris_sil_426480 ...