The incisors are somewhat larger than, but the canines and premolars approximate to, those of the felines; the crown of the incisors is cuspidate, and the premolars increase gradually in size, with the exception of the fourth in the upper jaw, the carnassial, which is treble the size of the one next to it. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)
In that case, what price the formidable carnassial teeth, the murderous claws of the lion and the leopard? ❋ RICHARD DAWKINS (2009)
Grey wolf bones were found below the 960 BP layer, and a wolf carnassial tooth even lower. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Turns out, polar bear teeth are not “hardly different” – their back teeth are distinctly more carnassial (for ripping meat, not grinding) than those of their ursid (bear family) cousins. ❋ Christopher O'Brien (2007)
Carnivore gene pools have genes that program prey-detecting sense organs, prey-catching claws, carnassial teeth, meat-digesting enzymes and many other genes, all fine-tuned to co-operate with each other. ❋ Dawkins, Richard, 1941- (2006)
The snout was long and canid, with heavy canines and broad carnassial teeth. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)
The dentition was more powerful than that of any other species of Canis, the carnassial teeth being, on the average, much larger than those of Canis lupus. ❋ Robert Hunter (1978)
Further, you know from experience that such and such definitely modified organs are invariably found with the carnivorous habit, carnassial teeth, for example, and reduced clavicles. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
From the carnassial tooth you can infer the reduced clavicle, and so on. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
From a "carnivorous" alimentary canal, then, you can infer with certainty that the animal possessed carnassial teeth and the other structural peculiarities of carnivorous animals, _e. g._, the peculiar coronoid process of the mandible. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
_Mustela_ in having four more teeth and an additional false molar on either side in each jaw; and the inner side of the carnassial or flesh tooth has a tubercle which is not present in the weasels; head elongate; feet very hairy; space between the pads hairy, often covering them from sight, except in the case of _Martes flavigula_, of which the soles are nude. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)
In the lower jaw the lowermost incisor is very large, and projects almost horizontally forwards, and it is followed by three small teeth now acknowledged to be premolars, with another large premolar, which is of the nature of a carnassial or cutting tooth acting on the one in the upper jaw. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)
There is also a difference in the lower carnassial or first molar, which impinges on the upper carnassial or fourth premolar; it has ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)
The second is strong and essentially carnassial; it is compressed laterally and obliquely placed. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)
Gray ( 'P.Z. S.,' 1863, p. 94) says: "The skull is very much like, and has the same teeth as the European wolf (_C. lupus_)," but in this I think he is mistaken, as the upper carnassial in _C. lupus_ is much larger than in any of the Asiatic wolves, and in this particular _C. laniger_ is affined to _C. pallipes_. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)
-- Fur long and coarse, dark yellowish-grey, sometimes almost black, but there is a good deal of variation in both colour and texture of the hair according to the country, whether cold or warm, from which the animal comes; a dark streak on the forelegs; the carnassial tooth is however the chief point of distinction between this and the Indian and Thibetan species; it is very much larger in the European animal, approximating to, and sometimes exceeding in size, the two molars together, which is not the case with the others. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)
a minute false molar in front of the carnassial in the upper jaw. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)
Mustela putorius) with special reference to the permanent carnassial. ❋ Unknown (2009)
