Shearing Mechanics and the Influence of a Flexible Symphysis During Oral Food Processing in Sphenodon (Lepidosauria: Rhynchocephalia)

Anatomical Record

Volumn 295, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1075-1091

  Jones, Marc E H ^a   O'higgins, Paul ^b   Fagan, Michael J ^c   Evans, Susan E ^a   Curtis, Neil ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chewing; Mandible; Mastication; Shearing; Sphenodon; Symphysis; Teeth; Tuatara

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; FOOD PROCESSING; JAW MOVEMENT; JAW OPENING REFLEX; MANDIBLE; MASTICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEARING; SPHENODON;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; JAW; MANDIBLE; MASTICATION; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MOUTH; REPTILES; TOOTH;

AMNIOTA; LEPIDOSAURIA; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; SPHENODON; SPHENODON PUNCTATUS; SPHENODONTIA;

EID: 84862493744     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.22487     Document Type: Article

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