hypoconid

plural hypoconids

1. dentistryOne of the main cusps, at the posterolabial side.

   Differs from Catopithecus and Oligopithecus by the retention of P 2 2, its single-cusped P 4, its P 3-4 of about the same size, its hypoconid nontwinned with entoconid on lower molars, its upper premolars without inner cusps, and by its broader upper molars with only very slight hypocone swelling.

   1999 October 15, J.-J. Jaeger et al., “A New Primate from the Middle Eocene of Myanmar and the Asian Early Origin of Anthropoids”, in Science, volume 286, number 5439, →DOI, pages 528–530