longirostrine
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From longi- + rostrum + -ine.
Adjective
[edit]longirostrine (not comparable)
- (zoology) Having a long jaw or rostrum, especially of a crocodilian
- 2016 January 13, “The Dance of Tusks: Rediscovery of Lower Incisors in the Pan-American Proboscidean Cuvieronius hyodon Revises Incisor Evolution in Elephantimorpha”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- The association of longirostrine and tuskless mandibles is very rare in proboscideans, and only Choerolophodon (family Choerolophodontidae, sensu [23 ]), a recently described new genus of Mammutidae [44 ], as well as the non-amebelodontine trilophodont gomphotheres Gnathabelodon and Eubelodon show these two conditions simultaneously.