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Re: Any thoughts on tooth loss patterns?

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Subject: Re: Any thoughts on tooth loss patterns?
From: "T. Michael Keesey" <mightyodinn@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:22:07 -0800 (PST)
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Seems to me to depend in the case.

--- david peters <davidrpeters@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Phylogenetically, do animals simply reduce the teeth they have before they
> become edentulous?
>
> Or do animals get lots of little teeth before they become edentulous?

_Ornithomimosauria_
 
> Or do they hold on to a few big teeth before they losing the last of them?

_Oviraptorosauria_, _Ornithurae_ (combined with reduction), _Xenarthra_

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