hypostriid
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]hypostriid (plural hypostriids)
- (paleontology) A vertical groove found between the protoconid and the hypoconid on the crowns of lower cheek teeth of castorids, i.e. beavers and closely grouped rodents.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Ruben Arthur Stirton (1935) A Review of the Tertiary Beavers, →OCLC, page 392
- Alexey V. Lopatin (2003) “The revision of the Early Miocene beavers (Castoridae, Rodentia, Mammalia) from the North Aral Region”, in Russian Journal of Theriology[1], Figure 1, page 16
- S. D. Bell (2004) Aplodontid, sciurid, castorid, zapodid and geomyoid rodents of the Rodent Hill locality, Cypress Hills formation, southwest Saskatchewan[2], Figure 7.2
- Lüzhou Li, Qiang Li, Xiaoyu Lu, Xijun Ni (2017) “Morphology of an Early Oligocene beaver Propalaeocastor irtyshensis and the status of the genus Propalaeocastor”, in PeerJ, , Figure 3