Dental CT scans (IMAGE)

Duke University

Dental CT scans

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Dental CT scans show that mammal teeth became less diverse during the early Oligocene extinction events. Here is an example of the three-dimensional tooth shape of a lower molar of a fossil anomaluroid rodent.

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Dorien de Vries, University of Salford

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