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OREODON (i.e. " hillock-tooth ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 253 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OREODON (i.e. " hillock-tooth ") , the name of an Oligocene genus of See also:North See also:American See also:primitive ruminants related to the camels, and typifying the See also:family Oreodontidae. Typical oreodonts were See also:long-tailed, four-toed, partially plantigrade ruminants with See also:sharp-crowned crescentic molars, of which the upper ones carry four cusps, and the first See also:lower premolar canine-like both in shape and See also:function. In the type genus there are See also:forty-four See also:teeth, forming an uninterrupted See also:series. The vertebral artery pierces the See also:neck-vertebrae in the normal manner. The name Oreodon is preoccupied by Orodus, the designation of a genus of Palaeozoic fishes, and is likewise antedated by Merycoidodon, which is now used by some writers. See See also:TYLOPODA.

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