Definition of Hypsodont. Meaning of Hypsodont. Synonyms of Hypsodont

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- 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...
- incisors, pre-molars, and molars, but no canines. The ch**** teeth are hypsodont and flat-crowned. Fossil taxa follow McKenna and Bell, with modifications...
- leaves, buds, fruit, and certain kinds of insects as inferred by large hypsodont teeth. The Flores giant rat has been suggested to have been a prey item...
- driver of hypsodont tooth development, not the silica-rich composition of gr****, as was previously thought. Since the morphology of the hypsodont tooth is...
- including Lavanify, are placed in the Sudamericidae, which have high-crowned (hypsodont) teeth. These include Gondwanatherium from the Campanian and Maastrichtian...
- (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...
- meters long and weighed around five tons, with a single enormous horn, hypsodont teeth and long legs for running. The latest known well dated bones of...
- cusps of earlier proboscideans, allowing them to become higher-crowned (hypsodont) and more efficient in consuming gr****. The Late Miocene saw major climactic...