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Revised 2018

zeuglodontnoun & adjective

Palaeontology.
  1. noun
    1. 1850–
      An extinct cetacean of, or related to, the former genus Zeuglodon.
      See note at Basilosaurus n.
      1. 1850
        Fossil bones of Seals found in the Miocene deposit..occur in company with the teeth of Sharks and Zeuglodonts.
        Proceedings Boston Soc. Natural History vol. 3 241
      2. 1960
        The early whales or zeuglodonts..were carnivorous, and the sea-cows..fed on seaweed.
        R. Casanova, Fossil Collecting (1970) iv. 89
      3. 2001
        The zeuglodont (yoke-toothed whale) is an early form of whale which lived mainly in the Eocene Epoch.
        P. Harrison, Sea Serpents & Lake Monsters British Isles Introduction 42
  2. adjective
    1. 1862–
      Of or relating to extinct cetaceans of the former genus Zeuglodon; designating such a cetacean.
      See note at Basilosaurus n.
      1. 1862
        As the ichthyosaurus was replaced by the whale-like cetaceans, so the plesiosaurus may have been by the zeuglodont cetaceans.
        New American Cyclopaedia vol. XIV. 471/1
      2. 1885
        Whales of the Zeuglodont family.
        R. Etheridge, Phillips's Manual Geology (new edition) vol. II. 650
      3. 1892
        Zeuglodont and other cetacean remains from the tertiaries of the Caucasus.
        Athenæum 12 November 667/3
      4. 2009
        To these jejune adventures were added..the trigeminal cranial nerve and its supposed relation to the cerebellum in the ancient Zeuglodont whales.
        P. V. Tobias in O. Harman & M. R. Dietrich, Rebels, Mavericks, & Heretics Biology v. 84

Originally published as part of the entry for Zeuglodon, n.

zeuglodont, n. & adj. was revised in June 2018.

zeuglodont, n. & adj. was last modified in June 2024.