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- Rubbery bill
- webbed feet
- mostly aquatic
- spurs with poison
- Australian zone
- Diet: aquatic invertebrates
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- Long rostrum
- Complete zygomatic arch
- Barbless spines
- Scoop-like claws used to burrow and open anthils
- Australian zone
- Diet-ants and termites
- nocternal and terrestrial
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- polyprotodont
- incisors 5/4
- well developed canines
- didactylous
- Nearctic and Neotropical zones
- semi-arboreal, some burrow
- omnivorous
- tribosphenic molars
- prehensile tails
- opposable thumbs
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- North America
- Scavenger, eats mostly animal matter
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- Polyprotodont
- Incisors 5/4
- Inflated auditory bullae divided into compartments
- Elongated premaxilla
- Incisors broad and spatulate, form U-shaped tooth row
- Didactylous
- Neotropical zone
- Eats invertebrates
- stores fat in its tail
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- Polyprotodont
- Incisors 4/3
- Well-developed canines
- Didactylous
- Australian zone
- carnivorous
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Term
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Definition
- polyprotodont
- incisors 4/3, tips flattened
- canines small
- syndactylous
- elongated rostrum
- Australian zone
- insectivorous
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
- bunodont molars that dimish in size posteriorly
- lower incisors long as molar tooth row
- honeycomb looking bone of the squamosal
- Australian zone
- honeycomb look of the squamosal
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Definition
- Slenodont upper molars
- Long paraoccipital process
- Australian zone
- Herbivorous
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Term
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Definition
- Large diastema
- Large massetreric fossa for masseter attachment
- 3 upper incisors blade like for cutting
- long, narrow rostrum
- Australian zone
- bipedal
- herbivores
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Definition
- Enlarged premolar set at an angle to molars
- Well developed canine
- Skull flattened in profile
- Australian zone
- Herbivores
- Omnivores
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Term
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Definition
- Enlarged premolar-ridge in line with molar row
- Australian zone
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Term
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Definition
- Angle of dentary NOT reflected
- Slenodont molars
- Australian zone
- herbivores
- koalas-eucalyptus
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Term
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Definition
- Incisors 1/1
- large diastema
- large massetoric fossa
- australian zone
- burrowing
- herbivores
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