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Conodonts as indicators of palaeogeographic regimes

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CONODONTS are disjunct elements of, probably, an internal food-gathering and/or macerating device of the conodontophorid animal which flourished in the Palaeozoic and early Mesozoic seas. They are excellent tools for biozonations and long distance correlations of marine sedimentary rocks of that age1.

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  1. Department of Geology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Newfoundland

    L. E. FÅHRÆUS & C. R. BARNES

  2. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    L. E. FÅHRÆUS & C. R. BARNES

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FÅHRÆUS, L., BARNES, C. Conodonts as indicators of palaeogeographic regimes. Nature 258, 515–518 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/258515a0

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