different between conodont vs cynodont

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From Ancient Greek ????? (kônos, “cone”) +? -odont.

conodont (plural conodonts)

Any of several extinct fish-like chordates having cone-like teeth.
- 2018, Mark Carnall, The Guardian, 2 May:
  The appearance of tiny teeth elements of an eel-like jawless animal called a conodont, specifically Hindeodus parvus, is the technical herald of the age of the dinosaurs according to the ICS.
A microfossil tooth of such an animal.

cyno- +? -odont, from Ancient Greek ???? (kú?n, “dog”) and ??????? (odóntos), genitive singular of ????? (odoús, “tooth, tusk”).

cynodont (plural cynodonts)

(zoology) Any of several small carnivorous synapsids in the clade Cynodontia, ancestral to mammals and extinct close relatives.

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