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Sophisticated microscopy analysis of conodont elements suggests that these mysterious fossil structures are not, as has been previously suggested, evolutionary precursors to vertebrate teeth. See Letter p.546

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Figure 1: False teeth.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion1 were published online on 16 October 2013.

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