Palæont. [mod.L. Squalodon, f. L. squalus SQUALUS + Gr. ὀδοντ-, ὀδούς tooth.] A genus of fossil cetaceans found in Miocene and early Pliocene formations; a cetacean belonging to this genus.
1872. Darwin, Orig. Spec. (ed. 6). xi. 302. The tertiary Zeuglodon and Squalodon … are considered by Professor Huxley to be undoubtedly cetaceans.
c. 1880. Cassell’s Nat. Hist., II. 247. The Squalodons are known chiefly from the skull.
So Squalodont. Also attrib.
1889. Nicholson & Lydekker, Palæontology (ed. 3), II. 1306. The extinct Squalodonts were formerly classed with the Zeuglodontidæ.
1899. Proc. Zool. Soc., 919. There is one detached tooth remaining, which is of the same Squalodont type.
