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...
- driver of hypsodont tooth development, not the silica-rich composition of gr****, as was previously thought. Since the morphology of the hypsodont tooth is...
- cusps of earlier proboscideans, allowing them to become higher-crowned (hypsodont) and more efficient in consuming gr****. The Late Miocene saw major climactic...
- murids of Nusa Tenggara. Based on its relatively unspecialized moderately hypsodont teeth and the isotype, Alormys is said to probably have an almost exclusively...
- their molars had changed to adapt to different diets. Living equids are hypsodont, the result of evolutionary adaptations towards grazing diets. Bronnert...
- features uniting ptolemaiidans and tubulidentates specifically include hypsodont molars that wear down to a flat surface; a long and shallow mandible with...
- teeth and specialized molars, including bunodont (low, rounded cusps) and hypsodont (high crowned) teeth. The development of hypsodonty has been of particular...
- 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...
- 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...