Animal Diversity Web

About Mammals in the Animal Diversity Web

The pages and figures listed here are some of the special aids to learning about mammals provided in the Animal Diversity Web. Others can be found by following links in the accounts of specific orders or families.

Horns and Antlers

Bats; special figures include:

• faces
• premaxillae
• wings and tails
• feet and calcar

Cranial Anatomy of the dog

• dorsal
• lateral
• ventral
• basicranial
• orbit
• inside of lower jaw
• outside of lower jaw

Hair

• X section of a hair follicle
• cuticular scales

Jaws and Ears

Legs, Feet, and Cursorial Locomotion

• Stance (plantigrade, digitigrade, unguligrade)
• Mesaxonic
• Paraxonic
• Raccoon skeleton

Mammary glands

Metatheria

• Didelphis cranium (dorsal)
• Didelphis cranium (ventral)
• inflection of angular process

Rodent Jaws

• Protrogomorphous
• sciuromorphous
• hystricomorphous
• myomorphous
• superfical masseter
• lateral masseter
• medial masseter
• Infraorbital foramina and zygomatic plates
• Zygomatic plate
• Sciurognathy vs. hystricognathy

Teeth (Introduction)

• Structure and placement of individual teeth
  • Cross section of a tooth
  • enamel and dentine in a porcupine tooth
• Milk teeth and the replacement of teeth
• Differentiation of teeth in an individual
  • the kinds of teeth
• The basic structure of cheek teeth
  • talonid, trigonid, trigon
• Chewing
• The diversity of cheek teeth
  • dilambdodont
  • zalambdodont
  • quadrate
  • carnassials
  • tribosphenic lower
  • tribosphenic upper
  • lophodont
  • loxodont
  • selenodont
  • secodont
  • bilophodont
• Summary figures of dental variation
  • Incisors
  • Canines
  • Cheekteeth
    • Murine rodents
    • Sigmodontine rodents
    • Shrew unicuspids

Contributors

Phil Myers (author).