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Polyprotodonta
Polyprotodonta Pol`y*pro`to*don"ta, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. poly`s many + ? first + ?, ?, tooth.] (Zo["o]l.) A division of marsupials in which there are more fore incisor teeth in each jaw.

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- signposts point in opposite directions. All members of the order are polyprotodont (have several pairs of lower front teeth)—in the case of the Peramelemorphia...
- teeth of the marsupial moles are degenerate and bear no resemblance to polyprotodont or diprotodont teeth. Their dental formula varies, but is usually somewhere...
- polyprotodont Australidelphia* Diprotodontia...
- species can be set apart from other marsupials by two traits; it is both polyprotodont (i.e., several pairs of lower front teeth) and syndactylous. The northern...
- display skeletal features that are intermediate between the primitive polyprotodont and the advanced diprotodont marsupials. Wynyardia's brain is clearly...
- herbivorous types of marsupials", and thought it was evidence that polyprotodont opossum-like mammals must have given rise to other marsupials (Osborn...