carnassial

How To Use carnassial In A Sentence

• The canines are long and sharp, the carnassials are usually well developed (but not secodont in a few species), and the incisors are unspecialized.
• This analysis included only those groups of organisms with a linear upper carnassial, in order to study the evolution of an ecological group, mammalian carnivores.
• Grey wolf bones were found below the 960 BP layer, and a wolf carnassial tooth even lower. Yellowstone National Park, United States
• In carnivores, features of the dentition related to diet include the morphology of the upper canine, lower carnassial, and fourth premolar.
• In creodont carnivores, such as Hemipsalodon studied here, upper molars have carnassial blades as well.
• The lower dentition is characterized by slender premolars and a relatively short and wide carnassial.
• The incisors are somewhat larger than, but the canines and premolars approximate to, those of the felines; the crown of the incisors is cuspidate, and the premolars increase gradually in size, with the exception of the fourth in the upper jaw, the carnassial, which is treble the size of the one next to it. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
• Carnivore gene pools have genes that program prey-detecting sense organs, prey-catching claws, carnassial teeth, meat-digesting enzymes and many other genes, all fine-tuned to co-operate with each other. The God Delusion
• The dimensions of the lower fourth premolar and lower carnassial tooth as well as the morphology of the mandibular ramus of the specimen from South Turkwel unequivocally identify it as an earlier representative of M. whites.
• Turns out, polar bear teeth are not “hardly different” – their back teeth are distinctly more carnassial (for ripping meat, not grinding) than those of their ursid (bear family) cousins. More On Ham's Creation Museum, Tyrannosaur Teeth And The Scientific Process