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Pleurodont vs Acrodont - What's the difference?

pleurodont | acrodont |

As adjectives the difference between pleurodont and acrodont

is that pleurodont is having the teeth fused (ankylosed) by their sides to the inner surface of the jawbones while acrodont is having teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge.

As nouns the difference between pleurodont and acrodont

is that pleurodont is any lizard with teeth of this kind while acrodont is one of a group of lizards having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge.

pleurodont

English

Adjective

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  • (zoology) Having the teeth fused (ankylosed) by their sides to the inner surface of the jawbones.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) Any lizard with teeth of this kind.

    • acrodont

    English

    (wikipedia acrodont)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • having teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1871 , author = St. George Mivart , title = On the Genesis of Species , chapter = , edition = , url = http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20818 , passage = Pleurodont lizards are such as have the teeth attached by their sides {148} to the inner surface of the jaw, in contradistinction to acrodont lizards, which have the bases of their teeth anchylosed to the summit of the margin of the jaw. }}
  • * {{quote-journal
    • , date = 2001-03-09 , first = Richard O. , last = Prum , coauthors = et al. , title = Longisquama Fossil and Feather Morphology , journal = , issn = 0036-8075 , doi = 10.1126/science.291.5510.1899c , volume = 291 , issue = 5510 , pages = 1899-1902 , url = http://www.sciencemag.org/content/291/5510/1899.3.full , passage = The known skeletal remains of Longisquama'' lack any other diagnostic archosaurian characters [the furcula mentioned by Jones ''et al . consists of paired clavicles, as Sharov originally noted], but they exhibit two features, acrodont teeth and an interclavicle ( 3 ), that are typical of lepidosaurs. }}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of a group of lizards having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge

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