Figure 3 in A new dentition-based phylogeny of Litopterna (Mammalia: Placentalia) and 'archaic' South American ungulates

Figure 3. Dental nomenclature used in the text and the characters. A, right upper molar in occlusal view. B–D, right lower molars in occlusal view. The main cusps of the molars are highlighted in bold. The molars represent structures sometimes present in SANUs and with relevance in the character scoring of this study. The molars do not represent any particular SANU. Molars in A and B were partially based on drawings from Gelfo (2006). Abbreviations upper molar: ecg, buccal cingulum or ectocingulum; es, entostyle; hy, hypocone; hys, hypostyle; me, metacone; ms, mesostyle; mt, metastyle; mtl, metaconule; pa, paracone; pcg, precingulum; phyc, prehypocrista; pmc, premetacrista; pmlc, premetaconular crista; ppc, preparacrista (or paracrista); pplc, preparaconular crista; pprc, preprotocrista; pr, protocone; prl, paraconule; prt, protostyle; ps, parastyle; pscg, postcingulum; pshyc, posthypocrista; psmc, postmetacrista (or metacrista); psmlc, postmetaconular crista; pspc, postparacrista; psplc, postparaconular crista; psprc, postprotocrista. Abbreviations lower molar: co, cristid obliqua; encd, entocristid; end, entoconid; dbgd, distobuccal cingulid; dlgd, distolingual cingulid; hlph, hypolophid; hycd, hypocristid; hyd, hypoconid; hyld, hypoconulid; mbgd, mesiobuccal cingulid; med, metaconid; mlgd, mesiolingual cingulid; mlph, mesolophid; msd, mesoconid; pacd, paracristid; pad, paraconid; peld, preentoconulid; pmcd, premetacristid; prcd, protocristid; prd, protoconid; prgd, precingulid; pscd, postcristid (or postentocristid); pseld, postentoconulid; psgd, postcingulid; psmcd, postmetacristid.

Püschel, H. P., Shelley, S. L., Williamson, T. E., Perini, F. A., Wible, J. R., & Brusatte, S. L. (2024). Figure 3 in A new dentition-based phylogeny of Litopterna (Mammalia: Placentalia) and 'archaic' South American ungulates. In Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Vol. 202, Number 1, pp. 1–50). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13774723