. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history. Notes on killer whales 129 believed, that accounted for the uneven and extreme tooth wear he illustrated (p. 4) as having occurred on one side in his specimen. He also felt that such misalignment was not uncommon in killer whales. Tomes (1873) also had described similar uneven and extreme tooth wear, also, he felt, apparently resulting from a twisted jaw, in a killer whale taken in British waters. In both of these instances, the tooth wear was of such a nature that considerable cavitation had
. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history. Notes on killer whales 129 believed, that accounted for the uneven and extreme tooth wear he illustrated (p. 4) as having occurred on one side in his specimen. He also felt that such misalignment was not uncommon in killer whales. Tomes (1873) also had described similar uneven and extreme tooth wear, also, he felt, apparently resulting from a twisted jaw, in a killer whale taken in British waters. In both of these instances, the tooth wear was of such a nature that considerable cavitation had re-. Figute 1. leetli of the \\ashiii<;ton State killer whale. arran<jed to show approxi- mate relationships to opposing teeth in life. The indented areas are the i-esult of natural wear, and are not the result of fracturing or splintering of the teeth dur- ing removal from the jaws. Note the horizontal labial grooving on all but the tooth at the upper right. Teeth not necessarily in actual order as in life. Photo- graph by Cliff Brown, Marineland of the 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 Southern California Academy of Sciences. Los Angeles, Calif. : The Academy
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