Crossword-Solution: ZEUGLODON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Zeuglodon | n. | A genus of extinct Eocene whales, remains of which have been found in the Gulf States. The species had very long and slender bodies and broad serrated teeth. See Phocodontia. |
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| BASILOSAURUS | 1 answer |
| CETACEAN, primitive | 2 answers |
| PRIMITIVE cetacean | 2 answers |
| WHALE, primitive | 2 answers |
| Whale | 38 answers |
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Sentences with ZEUGLODON (5)
Whales evolved from some land ancestry at a very early date in the Tertiary; in the marine deposits of the Eocene are found the bones of the Zeuglodon, a whalelike creature seventy feet in length.
Yet another connecting form is _Eocetus_, a very large animal from nearly the same horizon as _Prozeuglodon_; its skull approaching that of _Zeuglodon_ as regards the backward position of the nostrils, although the cheek-teeth are of the creodont type, having inner, or third, roots.
The great Eocene whales of the South Atlantic (_Zeuglodon_) which have these characters, attained the length of seventy feet, and are undoubtedly the first of the whales in rank as well as in time.
These deposits consisted of porcelain clays, yellow and white sands, and "burrstone," a flinty grit used for millstones, which often was full of silicified shells and corals, with the teeth of sharks and the bones of zeuglodon.
Longer halts were made at Claiborne, to collect fossils from deposits corresponding in age with those at Bracklesham in England; and at Macon (Alabama) to visit a place where some remarkable specimens of the zeuglodon had been discovered.