The tooth of perfection: functional and spatial constraints on mammalian tooth shape

By Alistair R. Evans, G. Sanson. 2003

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The oldest known metriorhynchid super-predator: a new genus and species from the Middle Jurassic of England, with implications for serration and mandibular evolution in predacious clades (2013, background): “As such, the upper-and-lower tooth rows function as a set of opposing blades which could slice prey through point cutting (sensu Evans & Sanson 2003; see Young & Andrade 2009; Andrade et al. 2010).”
Mammalian dental function and wear: A review (2015, unknown): “We can intuit a lot about dental biomechanics by developing idealized models to determine optimal “ designs ” for teeth to break foods with stress-and displacement-limited defenses, and then comparing them with real teeth [6,21,40,41] (see Fig.”
Three-dimensional reconstruction of tooth relationships during carnivoran chewing (2008, background): “This generally means that there is relief behind the blades, which is functionally desirable as it will reduce jamming or friction between the blades (Evans and Sanson 2003; Evans 2005).”