cyrtomatodont
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See cyrto- / κυρτός (kurtós), -odont / ὀδούς (odoús).
Adjective
[edit]cyrtomatodont (not comparable)
- (zoology, of hinge teeth) Hook-shaped, interlocking.
- Antonym: deltidiodont
Noun
[edit]cyrtomatodont (plural cyrtomatodonts)
- (zoology) A knob- or hook-shaped hinge tooth on the shell of a brachiopod.
- A shell or organism with such dentition.
- 2001, David Harper, Rong Jia-Yu, “Palaeozoic brachiopod extinctions, survival and recovery”, in Geological Journal, volume 36, page 317:
- The deltidiodont morphology did not survive the end-Permian extinctions; the modern articulated brachiopod fauna is dominated by cyrtomatodonts with crurae and loops.