hypostriid
English
Etymology
From hypo- + striid.
Noun
hypostriid (plural hypostriids)
- (paleontology) A vertical groove found between the protoconid and the hypoconid on the crowns of lower cheek teeth of castorids, i.e. beavers and closely grouped rodents.
Related terms
- hypostria
Further reading
- Ruben Arthur Stirton (1935) A Review of the Tertiary Beavers, OCLC 459080433, page 392
- Alexey V. Lopatin (2003), “The revision of the Early Miocene beavers (Castoridae, Rodentia, Mammalia) from the North Aral Region”, in Russian Journal of Theriology, Figure 1, page 16
- S. D. Bell (2004) Aplodontid, sciurid, castorid, zapodid and geomyoid rodents of the Rodent Hill locality, Cypress Hills formation, southwest Saskatchewan, Figure 7.2
- Lüzhou Li, Qiang Li, Xiaoyu Lu, Xijun Ni (2017), “Morphology of an Early Oligocene beaver Propalaeocastor irtyshensis and the status of the genus Propalaeocastor”, in PeerJ, DOI:, Figure 3