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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...
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examples of
animals with
hypsodont dentition are
cattle and horses, all
animals that feed on gritty,
fibrous material.
Hypsodont molars can
continue to...
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driver of
hypsodont tooth development, not the silica-rich
composition of gr****, as was
previously thought.
Since the
morphology of the
hypsodont tooth is...
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cusps of
earlier proboscideans,
allowing them to
become higher-crowned (
hypsodont) and more
efficient in
consuming gr****. The Late
Miocene saw
major climactic...
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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...
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their molars had
changed to
adapt to
different diets.
Living equids are
hypsodont, the
result of
evolutionary adaptations towards grazing diets. Bronnert...
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features uniting ptolemaiidans and
tubulidentates specifically include hypsodont molars that wear down to a flat surface; a long and
shallow mandible with...
- incisors, pre-molars, and molars, but no canines. The ch****
teeth are
hypsodont and flat-crowned.
Fossil taxa
follow McKenna and Bell, with modifications...
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teeth and
specialized molars,
including bunodont (low,
rounded cusps) and
hypsodont (high crowned) teeth. The
development of
hypsodonty has been of particular...
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among non-mammalian
synapsids for the
presence of
hypsodont (high-crowned)
postcanine teeth.
Hypsodont teeth grow
continuously to
counteract high wear caused...
