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cyrtomatodonts

cyrtomatodonts is the plural of cyrtomatodont.

Meaning of cyrtomatodont

Noun

cyrtomatodont (plural cyrtomatodonts)

  1. A knob- or hook-shaped hinge tooth on the shell of a brachiopod.
  2. A shell or organism with such dentition.
    • The deltidiodont morphology did not survive the end-Permian extinctions; the modern articulated brachiopod fauna is dominated by cyrtomatodonts with crurae and loops.2001, David Harper, Rong Jia-Yu, “Palaeozoic brachiopod extinctions, survival and recovery”, in Geological Journal, volume 36, page 317

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Questions about cyrtomatodonts

What is cyrtomatodonts the plural of?
Cyrtomatodonts is the plural of cyrtomatodont.

Words near cyrtomatodonts in the dictionary

  1. cyrtocrinid
  2. cyrtodontid
  3. cyrtodontids
  4. cyrtolite
  5. cyrtomatodont
  6. cyrtomatodonts
  7. cyrtophorian
  8. cyrtophorians
  9. cyrtophorid
  10. cyrtophorids
  11. cyrtos

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