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Static intraspecific allometry of the dentition in Otoletnur crassicaudatus
Authors:JULIUS A KIESER  H T GROENEVELD
Institution:Department of Oral Pathology, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg;Department of Statistics, Pretoria University, Pretoria, South Africa
Abstract:Adult static intraspecific allometry of tooth size was evaluated in a sample of 66 Otolemur crassicaudatus (34 male, 32 female). Tooth areas were calculated from mesiodistal and buccolingual measurements of canines and postcanine teeth of both arcades and were scaled to four viscerocranial measurements: bimaxillary width; maxillo-alveolar length; mandibular length and bigonial width. Individual tooth crown areas were also scaled to total skull length, body length and body weight. From the log-transformed analyses it is concluded that postcanine tooth size was unrelated to body length or weight, and poorly correlated to skull length or jaw size. Although viscerocranial size appears to be independent of body size, these measures are well correlated to skull length. It is shown that the longer the skull, the shorter and narrower the maxilla, and the longer and broader the mandible. Canines are shown to scale negatively allometric to skull length, hence, large animals will have relatively small canines.
Keywords:Allometry  sex dimorphism  primates  tooth size
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