Carnassials are paired upper and lower teeth modified in such a way as to allow enlarged and often self-sharpening edges to pass by each other in a shearing manner. This adaptation is found in carnivorans, where the carnassials are the modified fourth upper premolar and the first lower molar. These teeth are also referred to as sectorial teeth.[1]
- ^ Osborn, Henry Fairfield (1907). Evolution of mammalian molar teeth. Macmillan. p. 11. Retrieved 20 January 2011.