Preferred Label : interdental plate;
Uberon definition : The interdental plate refers to the bone-filled mesial-distal region between the teeth;
Uberon Taxon note : In paleobiology, the presence or absence of the interdental plate can determine the
place of an animal in the evolutionary scale, and paleontologists use the interdental
plate when trying to classify a new specimen. Thecodont reptiles and theropod dinosaur
fossils have an interdental plate, whereas acrodont reptiles such as Sphenodontia
do not.[3] Its presence in Archaeopteryx, an extinct avian, resulted in the proposal
of the dinosaur-bird connection;
Origin ID : 0013135;
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The interdental plate refers to the bone-filled mesial-distal region between the teeth
