What are Conodonts?
Conodonts Ancient animal remains with a variety of sharp teeth or jagged objects, one of the important research contents of microbiology. Toothstones may be tiny fossils formed from the bones or organs of an extinct marine animal.
- Odontoliths are small, ranging from less than 0.1 mm to about 4 mm. Various shapes, or simple or complex, undeformed dentistry generally show
- Although the dentate is small, it is numerous, with obvious characteristics and rapid evolution.
- The taxonomic location of dentate has not yet been determined. Toothstones are widely distributed but limited to
- Conodonts has at least eight Chinese translations : dentate worms, dentate spines, dentate stones, dentate types, dentate stones, calculus, tapered teeth, and conical teeth. The latter two translations (tapered teeth, tapered teeth) are found in the Japanese character names in Japan, and should be said to conform to the original meaning of Conodonts, because the Conodonts (dental spines) first discovered by Pander (1856) are mainly monoconical. Tooth-shaped spines, so he named Conodonts, cone is cone, cone, dont is tooth or tooth. So it makes sense for the Japanese to translate it into tapered or tapered teeth. However, the Chinese first translated Conodonts as tooth-shaped worms. The word tooth-shaped has long been deeply rooted in the human heart, and it cannot be called a tooth-shaped worm, because the isolated specimen of tooth-shaped spines is just
- Toothstone
- 2. The translation of Conodonts into tooth-shaped spines is a proper indication that it is a part of an organism, such as a tooth-shaped stone, which is easy to be mistaken for the entire organism compared with bi-stone, chrysanthemum, arrow stone and other categories, representing a natural genus Species; and actually only formal genera;
- 3 In terms of shape and size, there are still many fossils, such as worm teeth, fish teeth, and some small shell animal fossils of unknown classification. They are all "tooth-shaped small fossils". Tooth-shaped thorns are as precise and specific as that; moreover, Chinese people s understanding of "classes" has no classification level, and at any classification level, a class word can be added without specificity; every Chinese After the name of the genus, it is more inappropriate to add the words "tooth shape";
- 4 Translating Conodonts into tooth-shaped spines, with only a "thorn" appended to the Chinese genus name, is simple and specific, and its Chinese translation name will not match that of other fossils ending with "". Translated names are not mixed with the names of minerals or rocks at the end of the word "shi", nor are they mixed with place names (yake stone) or medical nouns (dental stones). Adding the words "toothstone" is simple and scientific. Li Siguang did not imitate the Japanese translation of Fusulinids into the three words "spindle worm", but created a word "fly", which is both image and simple with strong specificity. This is a precedent worth learning.
- 5. The tooth-shaped spine appeared earlier in official academic journals in China than the tooth-shaped stone. At present, most of the Chinese literature on tooth-shaped thorns published in China uses tooth-shaped thorns.
- From the above statement, it can be seen that among the eight Chinese translations of Conodonts, the earliest translation "Dentate" is the worst and unscientific; the "Dentate" and "Dentate" translations It's not perfect, it's not visual, it's not easy, and it doesn't have specificity; the translations of "tapered teeth" and "tapered teeth" are not in line with the national conditions; It is more consistent with the understanding of its biological form and function, and also has a very strong specificity. [1]