Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of mastodons whose molar teeth have crests in three rows. See
Mastodontinæ .
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Examples
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In fact, while digging 8 feet beneath Leyden's Brighton, Tenn., backyard on June 30, contractors discovered the bones of a rare prehistoric mammal called the trilophodon, an extinct relative of the elephant similar to the mastodon and mammoth.
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Digging for a new swimming pool at his Brighton home last week uncovered the jawbone of an extinct beast, possibly a mastodon or trilophodon.
Archive 2010-07-04 Bill Crider 2010
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Then there was the oliphaunt, this time not treated as an elephant, but as a four-tusked mastodon - probably a species of trilophodon or similar.
The Two Towers: a voyage into palaeobiology marypcb 2003
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The Pink Palace conservator estimated the fossil trilophodon weighed up to two tons.
Queens Gazette 2010
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The skeleton is from a trilophodon, which Google says looks like this:
Memphis Flyer 2010
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Tenn. backyard unearthed the fossilized jawbone of a prehistoric mammal, possibly a trilophodon, part of the mastodon family who were in turn the extinct relatives of today's elephants.
Foxsylvania 2010
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Turns out, the perfect spot for a pool was also the final resting place of a trilophodon --
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It appears to be the jawbone of a trilophodon, an extinct relative of the mastodon.
Queens Gazette 2010
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Museum experts say trilophodon bones have been found before in Texas but not in the mid-south area of Tennessee.
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The finding marks what is believed to be the first time a trilophodon was discovered in the mid-South.
chained_bear commented on the word trilophodon
See also gomphotherium.
September 2, 2008