precingula

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A form of precingulum — A small ridge that leads to a cingulum on a tooth.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of precingulum

    Amphicones of M 1 and M 2 incompletely fused; apices of paracone and metacone distinctly separate; cingulum well developed on molars and premolars; M 1, M 2, and DP 4 showing well-developed precingula with many cuspules.

    2015 September 24, “A New Large Hyainailourine from the Bartonian of Europe and Its Bearings on the Evolution and Ecology of Massive Hyaenodonts (Mammalia)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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