Growth and feeding ecology of coniform conodonts
Conodonts were the first vertebrates to develop mineralized dental tools, known as elements. Recent research suggests that conodonts were macrophagous predators and/or scavengers but we do not know how this feeding habit emerged in the earliest coniform conodonts, since most studies focus on the der...
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PeerJ Inc.
2021-12-01
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