clinomegodont
English
Etymology
Coined by French paleontologist and Jesuit philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in 1942,[1][2] from clino- + meg- + -odont.
Adjective
clinomegodont (comparative more clinomegodont, superlative most clinomegodont)
- (paleontology) Being or having teeth with an elongated procumbent (forward-leaning) crown and asymmetrical median labial lobe, especially in rodents such as zokors.
- Coordinate term: orthomegodont
References
- 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, page 271: “Teilhard de Chardin, who defined clinomegodonty (1942)”