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Definition of Oreodonts
1. oreodont [n] - See also: oreodont
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oreodonts
Literary usage of Oreodonts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1903)
"... and the Uinta oreodonts, instead of reduced in width as in ... instead of
strongly concave as in the later oreodonts, or convex as in ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1894)
"In other respects the dentition is widely different from that of the oreodonts.
Briefly staled, these differences are as follows : (1) The reduction of the ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1898)
"... are such as strongly to suggest the inference that, while the former is the
ancestor of the oreodonts, the latter stands in a similar relation to the ..."
4. Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the by United States General Land Office, United States Dept. of the Interior (1872)
"Its principal features distinguishing it from the oreodonts are as follows : The
orbits are open behind, or not separated from the temporal fossae, ..."
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