coryphodon

[ kuh-rif-uh-don ]

noun

, Paleontology.

1. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of coryphodon¹

1845; < New Latin < Greek koryph ( ḗ ) peak, top + odṓn tooth

Example Sentences

In particular, they sampled the isotopes from teeth of a large, -dwelling mammal Coryphodon.

From Scientific American

In the Middle Eocene, the place of Coryphodon was taken by Dinoceras and allied forms.

From Project Gutenberg

Fore-foot of Coryphodon 215 173.

From Project Gutenberg

Coryphodon is thus, as might be expected in a primal placental mammal, a creature of somewhat generalised type.

From Project Gutenberg

Creatures so supported and so armed, and217 living where food was plentiful, might well dispense with any great degree of intelligence, and their development of brain is consequently little better than that of Coryphodon.

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