synthetocerine

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noun

An extinct protoceratid of the late Miocene comprising the genus Synthetoceras.

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Meanings

nounsynthetocerine (plural synthetocerines)

plural synthetocerines

  1. An extinct protoceratid of the late Miocene comprising the genus Synthetoceras.

    Males of the group of Miocene North American deer-like animals, the synthetocerines, have a single, very long horn, balanced circus-like almost at the tip of their snouts, split at the tip like a barbecue fork.

    2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 46
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