- crest) and tall
metaconid (posterior-interior cusp) with much
lower paracristids and
small paraconids.
Pantodonts have
plesiomorphic (unaltered) and robust...
-
lower molars, the
trigonids (the
buccal shearing side) have an
inflated paracristid and
marginalized or
absent metaconid; and the
talonid (the distal, or...
-
strongly developed protoconid and paraconid. Both the
anterior of the
paracristid and
posterior of the
protocristid are
nearly vertical. The
talonid is...
- length/breadth index,
narrow m2 talonid, a
strongly reduced m1
metaconid and a m1
paracristid pointing more
anteriorly than in
other amphicyonids.
Among its defining...
-
adapines are the
reduced or
absence of a
paraconid and
morphology of the
paracristid.
These and a few
other features are
synapomorphies that were used to...
-
trigonid region,
mesiolingual to the paraconid. A pair of
sharp keels, the
paracristid and protocristid,
project away from the
protoconid and
sharply curve...
- and
three lingual cusps for a
total of five, with the
postcristid and
paracristid cusps extending lingually. In
regards to the
occlusion of teeth, the...
- chimaera, the
trigonid is
broader than in D. major. A low crest, the
paracristid,
descends from the
protoconid lingually and
towards the front, forming...
- the
hypoconid being positioned lingually (towards the tongue) from the
paracristid. The
crest in
front of the
paracone (known as the preparacrista) is almost...
-
upper canine. P3 is
double rooted with a
prominent protoconid with a
paracristid that
orients anteriorly.
Accessory crests run from the
protoconid and...
