cynodont
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
cyno- + -odont, from Ancient Greek κύων (kúōn, “dog”) and ὀδόντος (odóntos), genitive singular of ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth, tusk”).
Noun[edit]
cynodont (plural cynodonts)
- (zoology) Any of several small carnivorous synapsids in the clade Cynodontia, ancestral to mammals and extinct close relatives.
- 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 160:
- The Triassic immediately followed a devastating mass extinction, and the cynodonts diversified in its aftermath in much the same way mammals did in the Paleocene.
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Further reading[edit]
- cynodont on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Cynodontia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Cynodontia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons