orthomegodont

English

Etymology

Coined by French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in 1942,[1][2] from ortho- +‎ meg- +‎ -odont.

Adjective

orthomegodont (comparative more orthomegodont, superlative most orthomegodont)

  1. (paleontology) Being or having teeth with a nonelongated crown and symmetrical median labial lobe, especially in rodents such as zokors.
    Coordinate term: clinomegodont

References
  1. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1942) “New rodents of the Pliocene and lower Pleistocene of North China”, in Publication de la Institut de Géo-Biologie
  2. Marie A. Lawrence (1991) “A Fossil Myospalax Cranium (Rodentia: Muridae) from Shanxi, China, with Observations on Zokor Relationships”, in Contributions to mammalogy in honor of Karl F. Koopman‎, page 261: “Clinomegodont and orthomegodont follow Teilhard de Chardin (1942)”
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