Sentence examples for dentary bone from inspiring English sources

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dentary bone

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The mandible of a vertebrate, or homologous bone in the lower jaw of ancestral and related animals, which holds teeth.

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In true mammals, one jaw joint is formed by the squared bone of the skull and the dentary bone of the lower jaw.

The lower jaw was dominated by the dentary bone; the other lower-jaw elements, characteristic of reptiles, were relatively reduced, as in mammals and their near relatives.

Moreover, the dentary bone in the lower jaw is also toothless, upturned, and broad.

All the teeth in the lower jaw were found on the dentary bone.

As in Tarbosaurus, a ridge on the outer surface of the angular bone of the lower jaw articulated with the rear of the dentary bone, locking the two bones together and removing much of the flexibility seen in other tyrannosaurids.

In the lower jaw, a ridge on the outer surface of the angular bone articulated with the rear of the dentary bone, creating a locking mechanism unique to Tarbosaurus and Alioramus.

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In most lizards, teeth are present along the jaw margin (on the maxilla, premaxilla, and dentary bones).

There were prominent upper and lower tusklike teeth at the front of the mouth (the upper set in the premaxillary bones, the lower on the dentary bones).

In addition, all turtles share a unique cranial architecture including dentary bones that lack teeth but have keratinous sheaths as cutting edges.

Along with the eight premaxillary teeth, Gorgosaurus had 26 to 30 maxillary teeth and 30 to 34 teeth in the dentary bones of the lower jaw.

Large incisor teeth are also present at the tips of the upper and lower jaws, rooted in the premaxillae and dentary bones.

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