Sentence examples for based on teeth from inspiring English sources

In 1857, Joseph Leidy renamed Deinodon horridus Leidy 1856 into Megalosaurus horridus, the "frightening one", a genus based on teeth.

Men who grew up in the St . Louisarea in the early 1960s and died of cancer by middle age had more than twice as much radioactive strontium in their baby teeth as men born in the same area at the same time who are still living, according to a study based on teeth collected years ago by Washington University in St . Louis

Juvenile remains are known from several locations, mostly based on teeth.

I. ottingeri, described by Peter Galton and James A. Jensen in 1979, is a nomen dubium based on teeth from the possibly Aptian-age lower Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah.

This estimate is much earlier than previously reported for the divergence of the panda lineage from the Ursavus lineage based on teeth morphology of Agriarctos fossils (12 15 Ma) [ 30].

Although the early history of the captive apes is rarely known in this setting, it is possible to make use of some of the available information: place where the individual was seized, age estimation based on teeth eruption and size, or genetic analysis.

Each badger was sexed, aged as either an adult (more than two years of age) or yearling (between one and two years of age; ageing was based on tooth wear as described in [44]), examined for signs of reproduction, injuries and parasites and then given a unique tattoo identification code in the inguinal region.

The moose were aged based on tooth wear (calibrated with sectioning [ 17]) during immobilizations one year prior to these captures.

Based on tooth size and growth ring analysis within the vertebrae, it is estimated that the animal was about 20 years old and 17 to 18 feet long.

This study investigated the attitudes of orthodontists and laypersons towards the choice of extracting second premolars, rather than first premolars, based on tooth condition and the use of additional anchorage devices.

However, recent paleoecological reconstructions based on tooth wear, carbon isotopes, and functional morphology indicate that grasses played a minor role in Late Miocene ecosystems of the eastern Mediterranean, which were more likely dry woodlands or forests.