hybodont

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hybodont (plural hybodonts)

  1. An extinct shark (or similar fish) of the order Hybodontiformes.
    • 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 165:
      At least for one species of hybodont, the mountain lakes of Central Asia provided a nursery for their young, a place where adults would congregate and mate.