Denticle (teeth)

serrations on the teeth of dinosaurs, lizards, sharks, and mammals From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Denticle (teeth)
Remove ads

Denticles or serrations are small bumps on a tooth that give the tooth a cutting edge.

Thumb
Dromaeosaur tooth with small denticles along the cutting edge. Scale bars are 1 mm.
Thumb
Ankylosaurus tooth with large denticles

In paleontology, denticle features are used to describe and classify fossilized teeth, especially those of dinosaurs.

Denticles are also present on the teeth of some lizards, sharks, and mammals.[1]

Remove ads

References

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads