There is a distinct tendency towards a homodont series, the grinding teeth being often very simple, and the very distinct carnassial tooth of many terrestrial Carnivores being absent.
The carnassial teeth are not typically developed, and the molars are broad and tuberculate.
The carnassial tooth of the upper jaw has three lobes to the blade; that of the lower jaw is without an inner cusp.
The upper carnassial tooth, however, is like that of Hyaena in having a strong inner cusp.
The carnassial tooth is less emphasised in this group than in the Cats.
The carnassial tooth is often, but by no means always, very much larger and especially longer than the rest of the molar and premolar series.
Moreover the carnassial teeth are not so pronounced, and Professor Huxley laid especial stress upon the {416} likeness of some of the cheek teeth to those of the more primitive Arctoids.
The molar is more in a line with the other teeth of the jaw, and the upper carnassial tooth has no inner tubercle.
There is no specialcarnassial tooth, and the incisors are always fewer than 3/3.
The fourth upper premolar and first lower molar are differentiated as carnassial teeth (see p.
There is no carnassial tooth, and the teeth in other ways differ considerably from those of Carnivora vera.
The lower carnassial has only two roots; its crown consists of a bilobed blade with generally an inner cusp, and a heel or talon (fig.
The cranial cavity is very small; and the fourth upper premolar and first lower molar are not differentiated as carnassial teeth[134], as they are in modern Carnivora.
The incisors are very small, so as not to interfere with the action of the large canines, the lower carnassial is reduced to simply the bilobed blade (fig.
I think he is mistaken, as the upper carnassial in C.
In the same subspecies, he noted 28 days after birth that the canines and carnassial teeth [second deciduous cheek tooth above and third below] had erupted through the gums.
For example, the upper carnassial of the milk dentition is even more highly sectorial than is the permanent tooth and strikingly like that of some of the cats.
Further, you know from experience that such and such definitely modified organs are invariably found with the carnivorous habit, carnassial teeth, for example, and reduced clavicles.
From a "carnivorous" alimentary canal, then, you can infer with certainty that the animal possessed carnassial teeth and the other structural peculiarities of carnivorous animals, e.
From the carnassial tooth you can infer the reduced clavicle, and so on.
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