Definition of Hypsodont. Meaning of Hypsodont. Synonyms of Hypsodont

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Definition of Hypsodont

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Meaning of Hypsodont from wikipedia

- Hypsodont is a pattern of dentition characterized by teeth with high crowns, providing extra material for wear and tear. Some examples of animals with...
- examples of animals with hypsodont dentition are cattle and horses, all animals that feed on gritty, fibrous material. Hypsodont molars can continue to...
- driver of hypsodont tooth development, not the silica-rich composition of gr****, as was previously thought. Since the morphology of the hypsodont tooth is...
- cusps of earlier proboscideans, allowing them to become higher-crowned (hypsodont) and more efficient in consuming gr****. The Late Miocene saw major climactic...
- their molars had changed to adapt to different diets. Living equids are hypsodont, the result of evolutionary adaptations towards grazing diets. Bronnert...
- diprotodontid marsupial from Australia and New Guinea. This marsupial had hypsodont molars and weighed around 500 kg. It was a relative of the larger Diprotodon...
- teeth and specialized molars, including bunodont (low, rounded cusps) and hypsodont (high crowned) teeth. The development of hypsodonty has been of particular...
- features uniting ptolemaiidans and tubulidentates specifically include hypsodont molars that wear down to a flat surface; a long and shallow mandible with...
- (eye sockets) are prominent and set high on the skull. Their teeth are hypsodont, and their dental formula is 0.0.3.33.1.3.3. Unlike deer, pronghorns possess...
- dental pad, that provides a surface to grip gr****es and foliage. They are hypsodont and selenodont, since the molars and premolars are low-crowned and crescent-shaped...