Essays about: "dentition"

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  1. 6. Adaptations and evolution in terrestrial carnivores

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

    Author : Anders Hansson; [1996]
    Keywords : Carnivora; Creodonta; locomotor adaptations; skeleton; dentition; jaws; carnassials; saber-tooths; evolution; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : A review of adaptations in fossil and extant mammalian carnivores has been made. Adaptations to different locomotor behaviours can be seen in the postcranial skeleton. Typically cursorial adaptations are long distal limb segments and restrictions in the mobility of the limbs to move in other directions than forward and backward. READ MORE