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calcareous tooth
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Skeletal element within the mouth (or in some species, upper part of the digestive tract) that is composed of dentine and is used in procuring or masticating food. [ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth_(animal) ]
Term info
Label
calcareous tooth
Synonyms
- dental element
- dentine containing tooth
- tooth
- vertebrate tooth
Subsets
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
depicted by
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Teeth_by_David_Shankbone.jpg
editor note
we place ZFA ctb 5 tooth here for now. Consider changing name from calcaeeous tooth. Note that sea cucumbers develop calcareous tooth-like structures
has obo namespace
uberon
has relational adjective
dental
homology notes
The ancestor of recent vertebrate teeth was a tooth-like structure on the outer body surface of jawless fishes.[well established][VHOG]
id
UBERON:0001091
taxon notes
absent in living platypus, present in toothed Miocene platypus Obduron dicksoni
Term relations
Subclass of:
- tooth-like structure
- ectoderm-derived structure
- structure with developmental contribution from neural crest
- has_part some dentine
- has developmental contribution from some stomodeum
- has developmental contribution from some tooth enamel organ
- develops from some tooth bud
- immediate transformation of some tooth bud