Palæont. [f. Gr. λόφιον, dim. of λόφος crest + ὀδοντ-, ὀδούς tooth, after mastodon, etc.] A genus of fossil mammals of the Eocene period, the typical genus of the Lophiodontidæ; a fossil mammal of this genus.
1833. Lyell, Princ. Geol., III. 221. Cuvier also mentions the remains of a species of lophiodon as occurring among the bones in the Upper Val d’Arno.
1836. Buckland, Geol. & Min., I. 82. The Lophiodon is … allied most nearly to the tapir and rhinoceros, and, in some respects, to the hippopotamus.
1864. Owen, Power of God, 50. To match the eocene lophiodon we fetch the tapir from South America.
