scolecodont
English
Noun
scolecodont (plural scolecodonts)
- The fossilized jaw of a polychaete annelid.
- 1938, E. R. Eller, Scolecodonts from the Potter Farm Formation of the Devonian of Michigan, title:
- Scolecodonts from the Potter Farm Formation of the Devonian of Michigan
- 1968, Craig Bond Hatfield, Stratigraphy and Paleoecology of the Saluda Formation:
- Striking similarities between scolecodonts and jaws of modern worms has resulted in general agreement that scolecodonts are properly placed in order Errantida of class Polychaetia.
- 2012, Manfred Schidlowski, Early Organic Evolution: Implications for Mineral and Energy Resources:
- Scolecodonts are the partly organic, fossil remains of the jaw apparatus, a tooth-like structure, of eunicid polychaete annelid worms.
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