RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Morphological adaptation of the dentition in the order carnivora involves greater transformations in the upper dentition than in the lower dentition.
A1 Pérez-Claros, Juan Antonio
A1 Figueirido-Castillo, Francisco Borja
K1 Carnívoros
K1 Dentición
K1 Dientes - Adaptación
AB Starting from a given morphology, adaptation to different lifestyles and environments involves the modification of structures through natural selection.The dentition of carnivores is a clear example of this. To quantify the degree of divergence in the dentition of current carnivore families, the dentition has been divided into different regions (canines, premolars, carnassials and molars) and standardized for size by dividing by the total area of the dentition.Morphological divergence quantified as the distance from the centroid of the entire order or from that of each family is generally greater for the upper dentition than for the lower dentition. This suggestsdifferential selection pressures on the upper andlower dentition to adapt members of the order Carnivora to the different niches they occupy. This, which seems obvious for the machairodontine felids, is also observed in all other living families of bothfeliforms and caniforms.
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/27917
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/27917
LA eng
NO Grupo Paidi RNM 146 (Junta de Andalucía). Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026