A PROPOSAL FOR A STANDARD TERMINOLOGY OF ANATOMICAL NOTATION AND ORIENTATION IN FOSSIL VERTEBRATE DENTITIONS

By Joshua B. Smith, P. Dodson. 2003

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Subfields: Geometry and Topology, Paleontology

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In Geometry and Topology

1. R. Araújo
2. Christophe Hendrickx
3. J. Cisneros
4. J. Choiniere
5. O. Mateus

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2. Christophe Hendrickx
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Citations in the corpus

• New Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from El Salvador (2005, background): “Dental nomenclature follows in most part Smith & Dodson (2003) .”
• A Proposed Terminology of Theropod Teeth (Dinosauria, Saurischia) (2015, methodology): “The direction towards the jaw symphysis (Smith and Dodson, 2003; Fig.”
• The distribution of dental features in non-avian theropod dinosaurs: Taxonomic potential, degree of homoplasy, and major evolutionary trends (2019, methodology): “We also follow the dental notation proposed by Smith and Dodson (2003), which identifies the side of the jaw (i.e., left = L; right = R), followed by the abbreviation of the tooth-bearing bone (i.e., premaxilla = pm; maxilla = mx; dentary = dt) and then the position occupied along the tooth-bearing…”
• The Dentition of Megalosaurid Theropods (2014, methodology): “These authors mostly rely on the anatomical and topological definitions proposed by Smith and Dodson (2003) and the morphometric terms and abbreviations given by Smith et al. (2005).”