fish. Functionally, acrodont tooth implantation may be related to strong bite force. Squamata: Within squamate reptiles, acrodont tooth implantation is...

sockets. There are, however, other animals that have acrodont dentition such as tuataras. Usually acrodonts are divided into two families Chamaeleonidae and...

front and acrodont posterior teeth. Some rhynchocephalians differ from these conditions, with Ankylosphenodon having superficially acrodont teeth that...

the rear. Most species are pleurodont, though agamids and chameleons are acrodont. The tongue can be extended outside the mouth, and is often long. In the...

of bone, as seen in crocodilians, dinosaurs and mammals, and opposed to acrodont and pleurodont dentition seen in squamate reptiles. Notably, this appears...

amphibians exhibit teeth that have a slight attachment to the jaw or acrodont teeth. Acrodont teeth exhibit limited connection to the dentary and have little...

chameleons and agamids. Modern acrodontans are characterized by their acrodont dentition, meaning that their teeth implant along the margins of the jaws...

lizard to glide. While in its original description it was considered to acrodont lizard, with a cladistic analysis in the same study suggesting that it...

agamids is their teeth, which are borne on the outer rim of their mouths (acrodonts), rather than on the inner side of their jaws (pleurodonts). This feature...

surface of the jaw. The four following pairs of teeth are much smaller and acrodont, meaning that they grow from the upper margin of the jaw. Behind them are...

individual sockets (like in thecodonty) or without bone encasement (like in acrodonts and pleurodonts). It is known from several aquatic amniotes: ichthyosaurs...

but is not found among the non-archosaur reptiles, which instead have acrodont or pleurodont dentition. Teeth that were lost were replaced by teeth below...

attached to the inner side of the jaw along with larger posterior triangular acrodont teeth attached to the apex of the jaw bone, similar to other primitive...

suborder Iguania Acrodonta (katydid), a katydid genus in the tribe Agraeciini Acrodont, a formation of the teeth whereby the teeth are consolidated with the summit...

the tuatara, and almost all other rhynchocephalians, are described as acrodont, as they are attached to the apex of the jaw bone. This contrast with the...

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between the eyes, the interorbital septum, is present. Its dentition is acrodont; the teeth are compressed, triangular, and more or less distinctly tricuspid...

name, which means "Phrynosoma mimic." Like other priscagamids it has an acrodont dentition, meaning that its teeth grow from the margins of the jaws rather...

area and simple mono-cuspid teeth rostrally. Chameleon teeth are also acrodont ankylosed to the bones of the jaw. Odontoblasts produce a layer of predentin...

jaws and 11 larger permanent acrodont teeth in the posterior jaws. It was likely an insectivore which used its acrodont posterior teeth to dismember prey...

crassus Bayn Dzak, Ukhaa Tolgod, Zos Wash "Partially complete skulls." An acrodont. Also present in the Bayan Mandahu Formation. Myrmecodaptria M. microphagosa...

member of Sphenodontidae. Like most other rhynchocephalians, the teeth are acrodont, with a deep dentary, and it probably had an omnivorous habit. Apesteguía...

an elongated premaxillary process) and eusphenodontian characters (full acrodont dentition, high coronoid process and anterior successional teeth, including...

Kota Formation of India. The type specimen is a partial jawbone which has acrodont teeth, with other known remains including fragments of the premaxilla,...

be damage to the fossil. They agreed with Sharov that Longisquama has acrodont teeth and an interclavicle, but instead of a furcula, they saw paired clavicles...

reptiles and theropod dinosaur fossils have an interdental plate, whereas acrodont reptiles such as Sphenodontia do not. Its presence in Archaeopteryx, an...

in some adult individuals. While initially suggested to have had fully acrodont dentition, later X-ray analysis suggested that the teeth at the front of...

iguanians called Acrodonta, members of which are characterized by an "acrodont" dentition in which the teeth grow from the margins of the jaws. However...

agamids and are currently restricted to the Old World. Gueragama is the only acrodont known from South America, providing evidence that the group once ranged...

where the teeth are fused to the inner sides of the jaw bones, or the acrodont dentition, in which the teeth are fused to the top of the jaw bones without...