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Notes on a Peculiarity in the Form of the Mammalian Tooth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

J. Smith
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The ideal type of a mammalian tooth is here assumed to be a modified cone, or, as in certain molar teeth, a combination of cones, the vertex or vertices, as the case may be, corresponding either to the apex of the fang, or to the free extremity of the crown, or to both, as in the typical canine tooth, where two cones seem united by their bases.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 20 , 1895 , pp. 336 - 346
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1895

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page 344 * An hypothesis of this kind has been advanced in regard to the molars of the Elephant and some other animals—extending even to Man–by Röse, Kukenthal, Dybowski, Gervais, Gandry, and others, in contradistinction to those, such as Leche, who believe the molars to be simple teeth.