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OK, facts as presented are pretty correct and don't deserve critics - but, the taxobox says ... no hints that conodonta/conodontophora are Animalia>Chordata>Vertebrata, while the text says protoconodonta may be Animalia>Chaetognatha... How to resolve inner conflict?? Rursus 20:40, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
Is the animal, sensu stricto, called a conodont? I'm pretty sure that this is sloppy language which should not be endorsed by an encyclopaedia - but I may well be incorrect. Verisimilus T 15:55, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
You are correct, the fossilized teeth that are preserved in the rock record are referred to as conodonts, not the animal itself. However, this is actually addressed in the article.
Ok, so I was not as specific as I should have been. Conodont does in fact refer to the conodont elements, the teeth. Elements is specified as the conodont apparatus is an assemblage of these conodont elements. The animal itself is referred to as the "conodont animal". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.56.5.35 ( talk) 22:51, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
the first paragraph basically makes no sense....it dosent even explain what the article is about since the name "conodont" is not given to either the teeth of the animal (those are called conodont elements) nor the animal itself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.159.123.149 ( talk) 06:04, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Shouldn't there be some mention of the fact that the color of a conodont indicates the temperature the surrounding rock was cooked at? This also indicates the quality of any surrounding oil because oil must be cooked in a very small heat range.
I do believe this fact is attributed to Anita Harris of the USGS.
64.74.212.1 (
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A new study has shed light on the various types of teeth in conodonts. Tomorrow, Texas Tech Graduate Student Nicole Peavey is to present her results with the Geological Society of America's annual conference in Denver. Just something to keep an eye on for now; it may be worthwile to have a look at any publications which arise from this study. [1] Bob the Wikipedian ( talk • contribs) 23:07, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
I hope everybody's happy with the tree. Making a tree for the conodonts, as it turns out, is a real pain in the backside. My main source for this was Sweet and Donoghue's 2001 paper, which gives the conodonts in context, although is not based on rigourous cladistic analysis, only on Sweet's hypotheses in other papers. However, the part of the tree dealing with the euconodonts was largely rewritten after Donoghue's 2007 paper, which did do a proper analysis, but only on the complex conodonts (the prioniodontidae). This tree, from what I gather from the paper, reshuffled many of the taxa into different families and created many new orders. Obviously its relatively new, so could change, but I'm fairly happy with the method so its up.
Also, I know that recent papers are saying that the lampreys and the hagfish belong together as Cyclostomes but I have included them here as separate crown taxa - I mentionnned this in a footnote. || instantn00dle 17:02, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
I appreciate the pictures of the conodont "teeth", and the drawing of the animal; but there must be a photograph and/or drawing of the fossilized body(or maybe partial fossils) somewhere, which would add a lot to this article. Mcswell ( talk) 00:44, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
Any updates on how old the oldest conodonts are? I know there have been some contentious dates, but latest Ediacaran to Lower Cambrian seem to be coming up more often. For example here and here A lot of research papers, but I'm reluctant to go with that until the Encyclopedia Britannica people say it's for real. Zyxwv99 ( talk) 23:38, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
Amazing new image brought to my attention by Pharyngula. Link here. Anyone with experience able to see if we can use the image here? Blue Danube ( talk) 04:26, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
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OK, facts as presented are pretty correct and don't deserve critics - but, the taxobox says ... no hints that conodonta/conodontophora are Animalia>Chordata>Vertebrata, while the text says protoconodonta may be Animalia>Chaetognatha... How to resolve inner conflict?? Rursus 20:40, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
Is the animal, sensu stricto, called a conodont? I'm pretty sure that this is sloppy language which should not be endorsed by an encyclopaedia - but I may well be incorrect. Verisimilus T 15:55, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
You are correct, the fossilized teeth that are preserved in the rock record are referred to as conodonts, not the animal itself. However, this is actually addressed in the article.
Ok, so I was not as specific as I should have been. Conodont does in fact refer to the conodont elements, the teeth. Elements is specified as the conodont apparatus is an assemblage of these conodont elements. The animal itself is referred to as the "conodont animal". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.56.5.35 ( talk) 22:51, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
the first paragraph basically makes no sense....it dosent even explain what the article is about since the name "conodont" is not given to either the teeth of the animal (those are called conodont elements) nor the animal itself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.159.123.149 ( talk) 06:04, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Shouldn't there be some mention of the fact that the color of a conodont indicates the temperature the surrounding rock was cooked at? This also indicates the quality of any surrounding oil because oil must be cooked in a very small heat range.
I do believe this fact is attributed to Anita Harris of the USGS.
64.74.212.1 (
talk) 14:54, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
A new study has shed light on the various types of teeth in conodonts. Tomorrow, Texas Tech Graduate Student Nicole Peavey is to present her results with the Geological Society of America's annual conference in Denver. Just something to keep an eye on for now; it may be worthwile to have a look at any publications which arise from this study. [1] Bob the Wikipedian ( talk • contribs) 23:07, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
I hope everybody's happy with the tree. Making a tree for the conodonts, as it turns out, is a real pain in the backside. My main source for this was Sweet and Donoghue's 2001 paper, which gives the conodonts in context, although is not based on rigourous cladistic analysis, only on Sweet's hypotheses in other papers. However, the part of the tree dealing with the euconodonts was largely rewritten after Donoghue's 2007 paper, which did do a proper analysis, but only on the complex conodonts (the prioniodontidae). This tree, from what I gather from the paper, reshuffled many of the taxa into different families and created many new orders. Obviously its relatively new, so could change, but I'm fairly happy with the method so its up.
Also, I know that recent papers are saying that the lampreys and the hagfish belong together as Cyclostomes but I have included them here as separate crown taxa - I mentionnned this in a footnote. || instantn00dle 17:02, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
I appreciate the pictures of the conodont "teeth", and the drawing of the animal; but there must be a photograph and/or drawing of the fossilized body(or maybe partial fossils) somewhere, which would add a lot to this article. Mcswell ( talk) 00:44, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
Any updates on how old the oldest conodonts are? I know there have been some contentious dates, but latest Ediacaran to Lower Cambrian seem to be coming up more often. For example here and here A lot of research papers, but I'm reluctant to go with that until the Encyclopedia Britannica people say it's for real. Zyxwv99 ( talk) 23:38, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
Amazing new image brought to my attention by Pharyngula. Link here. Anyone with experience able to see if we can use the image here? Blue Danube ( talk) 04:26, 9 July 2016 (UTC)