Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A. genus of cestraciont sharks known chiefly by the pavement-teeth. They occur in the Jurassic and Cretaceous formations.

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  • There are many fishes, some of which (acrodus, psammodus, &c.,) are presumed from remains of their palatal bones, to have been of the gigantic cartilaginous class, now represented by such as the cestraceon.

    Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

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