Definition of Hybodont. Meaning of Hybodont. Synonyms of Hybodont

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Definition of Hybodont

Hybodont
Hybodont Hyb"o*dont, a. [Gr. ? hump + ?, ?, a tooth.] (Paleon.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an extinct genus of sharks (Hybodus), especially in the form of the teeth, which consist of a principal median cone with smaller lateral ones.

Meaning of Hybodont from wikipedia

- Hybodontiformes, commonly called hybodonts, are an extinct group of shark-like cartilaginous fish (chondrichthyans) which existed from the late Devonian...
- relatives). Important extinct groups of elasmobranchs sensu lato include the hybodonts (Order Hybodontiformes), xenacanths (order Xenacanthformes) and Ctenacanthiformes...
- Planohybodus (from Latin pl****, "flat", and "Hybodus") is an extinct genus of hybodont, known from the Middle Jur****ic-Early Cretaceous (Bathonian-Barremian)...
- Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish) with a shark-like morphology, such as hybodonts. Shark-like chondrichthyans such as Cladoselache and Doliodus first appeared...
- Heteroptychodus is an extinct genus of hybodont that lived in Asia during the Early Cretaceous period. It had low, rounded durophagous teeth that are covered...
- late Middle to Late Jur****ic. During the Early Jur****ic, the shark-like hybodonts, which represented the dominant group of chondrichthyans during the preceding...
- thought to have been produced by some extinct chondricthyan groups, such as hybodonts and xenacanths. Egg cases are made of collagen protein strands, and are...
- hybos, 'crooked' and Gr****: ὀδούς odoús 'tooth') is an extinct genus of hybodont that lived from the Middle Tri****ic to the Late Cretaceous periods. Species...
- known for its unusual spiral shaped spiral tooth whorl in the lower jaw. Hybodonts, a group of shark-like chondrichthyans, were widespread and abundant members...
- Egertonodus is an extinct genus of shark-like hybodont fish. It includes E. bas**** from the Jur****ic of Europe and North Africa and Cretaceous of North...