. On the anatomy of vertebrates. Vertebrates; Anatomy, Comparative; 1866. ii]iC'rior lii]£ir.\ t(.'Otli Botcli on each side of tlie large middle lobe (Boops). In the li)i'niidable Sca-jiikc (S])/i>/ra'ria Barracuda) the crown of each tooth, large and small, is produced into a compressed and sharp ,3 point, and resembles a lancet. Sometimes the edges of such lancet-shaped teeth are finely serrated, as in Priodon, and the great Sharks of the genus Curcharias, the fossil teeth of which indicate a species (Carch. 3[i'r/alodon) sixty or seventy feet in length. The lancetted form is excha


. On the anatomy of vertebrates. Vertebrates; Anatomy, Comparative; 1866. ii]iC'rior lii]£ir.\ t(.'Otli Botcli on each side of tlie large middle lobe (Boops). In the li)i'niidable Sca-jiikc (S])/i>/ra'ria Barracuda) the crown of each tooth, large and small, is produced into a compressed and sharp ,3 point, and resembles a lancet. Sometimes the edges of such lancet-shaped teeth are finely serrated, as in Priodon, and the great Sharks of the genus Curcharias, the fossil teeth of which indicate a species (Carch. 3[i'r/alodon) sixty or seventy feet in length. The lancetted form is exchanged for the stronger spear-shaped tooth in the Sharks of the eenus Lamna, fii, arc ex- ani]ilcs of this ajiproaeh to the higher Vertebrates. Among the anomalous positions of teeth may 2J6 Frmil (I'cMi of -\ tlnrtylus. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Owen, Richard, 1804-1892; Cornell University. College of Veterinary Medicine. Flower-Sprecher Veterinary Library. fmo. London, Longmans, Green


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