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Definition of taeniodont in English: taeniodontnoun ˈtiːnɪə(ʊ)dɒnt A primitive fossil herbivorous mammal from the Palaeocene and Eocene of North America, with deep powerful jaws and short stout limbs. Suborder Taeniodonta, order Cimolesta Example sentencesExamples - At least some members of the following groups developed hypsodont dentitions during the Late Eocene: taeniodonts, leporids, castorids, eomyids, rhinocerotids, hypertragulids, oromerycids, and ‘oreodonts’.
- It is a stylinodontine taeniodont which was discovered by two people who had just stopped on the side of the road.
- The teeth of a tingamarroid are quite strange, with large, flattened incisors, totally absent canines, and a set of deep-rooted, ever-growing molars most similar to those of the extinct taeniodonts.
- In their preferred upland habitat, taeniodonts could have been much more common than the fossil record reflects.
- Besides viverravids, the collection includes oxyclaenids, arctocyonids, triisodontids, pantolestids, taeniodonts, phenacodontids, mioclaenids, pentacodontids, periptychids, proprimates, and a multituberculate.
Origin 1930s: from modern Latin Taeniodontia (order name), from Greek tainia 'band, ribbon' + odous, odont- 'tooth'. |