paleodont

plural paleodonts · alternative palaeodont

1. An artiodactyl belonging to the suborder Paleodonta.

   The paleodonts had intermediate types of teeth. Primitive suines appeared in the Eocene.

   1983, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, volume 7, page 574

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   Artiodactyls first appear in the fossil record in the Eocene as small generalized creatures scarcely distinguishable from primitive insectivores or early carnivores. These were the paleodonts […]

   1960, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

   Another family, the Entelodontidae, flourished during the Oligocene and Miocene; they also were pig-like but somewhat larger than the paleodonts, with strong canine teeth and two toes on each foot. They disappeared during the Pliocene.

   1972, John Gilbert, Africa: Hunters and Hunted of the Savannah, page 119

   Wild and domesticated pigs are members of the paleodont artiodactyl family called Suidae, which is presumably the source of the popular hog-calling term "sooey."

   2003, Robert E. Krebs, Carolyn A. Krebs, Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and, page 19