hypostriid

English

Etymology

From hypo- +‎ striid.

Noun

hypostriid (plural hypostriids)

1. (paleontology) A vertical groove found between the protoconid and the hypoconid on the crowns of lower cheek teeth of castorids, i.e. beavers and closely grouped rodents.

Related terms

• hypostria

Further reading

• Ruben Arthur Stirton (1935) A Review of the Tertiary Beavers, →OCLC, page 392
• Alexey V. Lopatin (2003) “The revision of the Early Miocene beavers (Castoridae, Rodentia, Mammalia) from the North Aral Region”, in Russian Journal of Theriology‎^[1], Figure 1, page 16
• S. D. Bell (2004) Aplodontid, sciurid, castorid, zapodid and geomyoid rodents of the Rodent Hill locality, Cypress Hills formation, southwest Saskatchewan‎^[2], Figure 7.2
• Lüzhou Li, Qiang Li​, Xiaoyu Lu, Xijun Ni​ (2017) “Morphology of an Early Oligocene beaver Propalaeocastor irtyshensis and the status of the genus Propalaeocastor”, in PeerJ, →DOI, Figure 3