orthomegodont
English edit
Etymology edit
Coined by French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in 1942,[1][2] from ortho- + meg- + -odont.
Adjective edit
orthomegodont (comparative more orthomegodont, superlative most orthomegodont)
- (paleontology) Being or having teeth with a nonelongated crown and symmetrical median labial lobe, especially in rodents such as zokors.
- Coordinate term: clinomegodont
References edit
- ^ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1942) “New rodents of the Pliocene and lower Pleistocene of North China”, in Publication de la Institut de Géo-Biologie
- ^ Marie A. Lawrence (1991) “A Fossil Myospalax Cranium (Rodentia: Muridae) from Shanxi, China, with Observations on Zokor Relationships”, in Contributions to mammalogy in honor of Karl F. Koopman[1], page 261: “Clinomegodont and orthomegodont follow Teilhard de Chardin (1942)”