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lophiodon Palæont.|ləʊˈfaɪədɒn|
[f. Gr. λόϕιον, dim. of λόϕος crest + ὀδοντ-, ὀδούς tooth, after mastodon, etc.]
A genus of fossil mammals of the Eocene period, the typical genus of the Lophiodontidæ; a fossil mammal of this genus.
1833Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 221 Cuvier also mentions the remains of a species of lophiodon as occurring among the bones in the Upper Val d'Arno. 1836Buckland Geol. & Min. I. 82 The Lophiodon is..allied most nearly to the tapir and rhinoceros, and, in some respects, to the hippopotamus. 1864Owen Power of God 50 To match the eocene lophiodon we fetch the tapir from South America. |