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calcareous tooth

Go to external page http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001091

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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth_(animal) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]

Term info

Label

calcareous tooth

Synonyms
  • dental element
  • dentine containing tooth
  • tooth
  • vertebrate tooth
database cross reference
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

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