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coryphodon
[ kuh-rif-uh-don ]
noun
, Paleontology.
- a primitive hoofed mammal of the extinct genus Coryphodon, of the early Eocene Epoch, having a long, thickset body, short legs, and five-toed feet, each toe ending in a small hoof.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of coryphodon1
1845; < New Latin < Greek koryph ( ḗ ) peak, top + odṓn tooth
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Example Sentences
In Coryphodon the skull is of a more normal character, being without the conspicuous protuberances.
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For the structure of this genus and of Coryphodon, see Osborn, Bull.
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Coryphodon is thus, as might be expected in a primal placental mammal, a creature of somewhat generalised type.
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The scapula has not the peculiar acuminate form that exists in Coryphodon, but is triangular and broad above.
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The scapula seems to have the same peculiar leaf-like form that it has in the later Coryphodon.
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