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- called brachydont or brachyodont (from brachys 'short'). It is a type of dentition characterized by low-crowned teeth. Human teeth are brachydont. A brachydont...
- that feed on gritty, fibrous material. The opposite condition is called brachydont. Since the morphology of the hypsodont tooth is suited to a more abrasive...
- the lower fourth premolar has been lost. The teeth of H. minor are more brachydont (less high crowned) than those of H. amphibius, suggesting that H. minor...
- Members of the group were small-medium sized cursorial herbivores with brachydont teeth, with their toes showing progressive reduction, with later members...
- in the frontoparietal region overhanging the temporal fossae. It has a brachydont dentition like in other giraffids and its legs and feet are of medium...
- they grow consistently throughout life, and their ch**** teeth exhibit brachydont (low-crowned teeth) and bunodont (having tubercles on crowns) structures...
- legs, all of which are characteristics of a good jumper. Its teeth were brachydont in height, but the development of flattened surfaces and shearing lophs...
- parallel lamellae that form ridges but are generally relatively low crowned (brachydont), the numbers of ridges are greater in later species. Members of the genus...
- well as analysis of its hypsodonty index (low in this case; i.e., it was brachydont), body size and relative muzzle width suggests that it was a mixed feeder...
- evolution of the genus, the molar teeth had a low number of lamellae and were brachydont (low crowned), in Pleistocene species the teeth became very hypsodont...