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Scolecodont

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scolecodont [skō′lē·kə‚dänt]
(paleontology)
Any of the paired, pincerlike jaws occurring as fossils of annelid worms.
Scolecodont 

a fossil worm jaw belonging to predatory polychaetes. A scolecodont looks like a black serrated curved plate 0.3–3 mm in size and consists of organic matter and silica. Scolecodonts are generally found in Ordovician and Devonian deposits.
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Ordovician scolecodonts (polychaete jaws) of Estonia have been studied for more than ten years (Hints 1998).
Kaljoprion-a new enigmatic jawed polychaete genus from the Upper ... by Hints, Olle / Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences
The Rumba and lowermost Velise formations are characterized by a rather low chitinozoan/scolecodont ratio, ca 10 or less vesicles per scolecodont (but note how the scolecodonts were counted).
Frequency patterns of chitinozoans, scolecodonts, and conodonts in ... by Hints, Olle; Killing, Mairy; Mannik, Peep; Nestor, Viiu / Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences: Geology
Conodont and chitinozoan biozonation and scolecodont distribution in the Paatsalu section is described in O.
Use of immobile trace elements for the correlation of Telychian ... by Kiipli, Tarmo; Orlova, Kiira; Kiipli, Enli; Kallaste, Toivo / Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences
 
 
 
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