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Molar (tooth)

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The molars or molar teeth are large, flat teeth at the back of the mouth. [1]

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African elephant

African elephants are elephants of the genus Loxodonta.

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Arvicolinae

The Arvicolinae are a subfamily of rodents that includes the voles, lemmings, and muskrats.

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Bat

Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera; with their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight.

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Blesmol

The blesmols, also known as mole-rats, or African mole-rats, are burrowing rodents of the family Bathyergidae.

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Carnassial

Carnassials are paired upper and lower teeth (either molars or premolars and molars) modified in such a way as to allow enlarged and often self-sharpening edges to pass by each other in a shearing manner.

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Cattle

Cattle—colloquially cows—are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.

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Cheek teeth

Cheek teeth or post-canines comprise the molar and premolar teeth in mammals.

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Chewing

Chewing or mastication is the process by which food is crushed and ground by teeth.

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Cingulum (tooth)

In dentistry, cingulum (Latin: girdle or belt) refers to an anatomical feature of the teeth.

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Comminution

Comminution is the reduction of solid materials from one average particle size to a smaller average particle size, by crushing, grinding, cutting, vibrating, or other processes.

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Convergent evolution

Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different lineages.

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Cusp (anatomy)

A cusp is a pointed, projecting, or elevated feature.

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Deer

Deer (singular and plural) are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae.

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Dentition

Dentition pertains to the development of teeth and their arrangement in the mouth.

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Dryolestoidea

Dryolestoidea is an extinct clade of Mesozoic mammals that only contains two orders.

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Early Cretaceous

The Early Cretaceous/Middle Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name), is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.

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Elephant

Elephants are large mammals of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea.

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Equidae

Equidae (sometimes known as the horse family) is the taxonomic family of horses and related animals, including the extant horses, donkeys, and zebras, and many other species known only from fossils.

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Even-toed ungulate

The even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla) are ungulates (hoofed animals) whose weight is borne equally by the third and fourth toes.

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Golden mole

Golden moles are small, insectivorous burrowing mammals endemic to Southern Africa, where their Afrikaans names are gouemolle or kruipmolle (singular gouemol or kruipmol).

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Gums

The gums or gingiva (plural: gingivae), consist of the mucosal tissue that lies over the mandible and maxilla inside the mouth.

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Hedgehog

A hedgehog is any of the spiny mammals of the subfamily Erinaceinae, in the eulipotyphlan family Erinaceidae.

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Hypsodont

Hypsodont is a pattern of dentition with high-crowned teeth and enamel extending past the gum line, providing extra material for wear and tear.

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Insectivore

robber fly eating a hoverfly An insectivore is a carnivorous plant or animal that eats insects.

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Invagination

In developmental biology, invagination is a mechanism that takes place during gastrulation.

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Jurassic

The Jurassic (from Jura Mountains) was a geologic period and system that spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period Mya.

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Lagomorpha

The lagomorphs are the members of the taxonomic order Lagomorpha, of which there are two living families: the Leporidae (hares and rabbits) and the Ochotonidae (pikas).

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Lambda

Lambda, Λ, λ (uppercase Λ, lowercase λ; λάμ(β)δα lám(b)da) is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Manatee

Manatees (family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus) are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows. There are three accepted living species of Trichechidae, representing three of the four living species in the order Sirenia: the Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis), the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus), and the West African manatee (Trichechus senegalensis).

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Mandibular first molar

The mandibular first molar or six-year molar is the tooth located distally (away from the midline of the face) from both the mandibular second premolars of the mouth but mesial (toward the midline of the face) from both mandibular second molars.

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Mandibular second molar

The mandibular second molar is the tooth located distally (away from the midline of the face) from both the mandibular first molars of the mouth but mesial (toward the midline of the face) from both mandibular third molars.

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Marsupial

Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia.

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Maxillary first molar

The maxillary first molar is the human tooth located laterally (away from the midline of the face) from both the maxillary second premolars of the mouth but mesial (toward the midline of the face) from both maxillary second molars.

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Maxillary second molar

The maxillary second molar is the tooth located distally (away from the midline of the face) from both the maxillary first molars of the mouth but mesial (toward the midline of the face) from both maxillary third molars.

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Millstone

Millstones or mill stones are stones used in gristmills, for grinding wheat or other grains.

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Molar (tooth)

The molars or molar teeth are large, flat teeth at the back of the mouth.

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Mole (animal)

Moles are small mammals adapted to a subterranean lifestyle (i.e., fossorial).

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Monotreme

Monotremes are one of the three main groups of living mammals, along with placentals (Eutheria) and marsupials (Metatheria).

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Odd-toed ungulate

Members of the order Perissodactyla, also known as odd-toed ungulates, are mammals characterized by an odd number of toes and by hindgut fermentation with somewhat simple stomachs.

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Otomys

African vlei rats (Otomys), also known as groove-toothed rats, live in many areas of sub-Saharan Africa.

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Peramuridae

The family Peramuridae is a possible ancestor of early therians.

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Placentalia

Placentalia ("Placentals") is one of the three extant subdivisions of the class of animals Mammalia; the other two are Monotremata and Marsupialia.

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Platypus

The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), sometimes referred to as the duck-billed platypus, is a semiaquatic egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania.

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Polyphyodont

A polyphyodont is any animal whose teeth are continually replaced.

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Posterior superior alveolar artery

The posterior superior alveolar artery (posterior dental artery) is given off from the maxillary, frequently in conjunction with the infraorbital artery just as the trunk of the vessel is passing into the pterygopalatine fossa.

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Primate

A primate is a mammal of the order Primates (Latin: "prime, first rank").

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Pseudotribos

Pseudotribos ("false chewing") is an extinct genus of mammal that lived in China during the Middle Jurassic some, more closely related to monotremes than to placental or marsupial mammals, though inversely other studies recover shuotheres are closer to therians than monotremes.

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Raccoon

The raccoon (or, Procyon lotor), sometimes spelled racoon, also known as the common raccoon, North American raccoon, or northern raccoon, is a medium-sized mammal native to North America.

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Selene

In Greek mythology, Selene ("Moon") is the goddess of the moon.

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Selenodont

Selenodont teeth are the type of molars and premolars commonly found in ruminant herbivores.

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Shrew

A shrew (family Soricidae) is a small mole-like mammal classified in the order Eulipotyphla.

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Shuotherium

Shuotherium is a fossil mammal known from Middle-Late Jurassic of the Forest Marble Formation of England,Sigogneau−Russell, D. 1998.

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Solenodon

Solenodons (meaning "slotted-tooth") are venomous, nocturnal, burrowing, insectivorous mammals belonging to the family Solenodontidae.

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Steropodon

Steropodon galmani was a prehistoric species of monotreme, or egg-laying mammal, that lived about 105 million years ago (mya) in the Lower Cretaceous period.

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Tapir

A tapir is a large, herbivorous mammal, similar in shape to a pig, with a short, prehensile nose trunk.

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Therapsid

Therapsida is a group of synapsids that includes mammals and their ancestors.

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Theria

Theria (Greek: θηρίον, wild beast) is a subclass of mammals amongst the Theriiformes (the sister taxa to Yinotheria).

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Tooth

A tooth (plural teeth) is a hard, calcified structure found in the jaws (or mouths) of many vertebrates and used to break down food.

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Wisdom tooth

A wisdom tooth or third molar is one of the three molars per quadrant of the human dentition.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molar_(tooth)

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