selenodont

Historical Examples of selenodont

• While the molars have the selenodont character of other Pecora, the premolars are more adapted for cutting, with sharp edges.

  The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia

  Frank Evers Beddard

• The premolars are simple teeth; the molars distinctly bunodont with a tendency in one or two to the selenodont condition.

  The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia

  Frank Evers Beddard

• The molars are selenodont; but as in the Tragulidae the premolars are more of the nature of cutting teeth.

  The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia

  Frank Evers Beddard

• The type genus Xiphodon has selenodont molars and elongated, slender, cutting premolars.

  The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia

  Frank Evers Beddard

• In the Pigs and their allies the crowns are bunodont, while in the more highly specialised Ruminants the crowns are selenodont.

  The Vertebrate Skeleton

  Sidney H. Reynolds