interdental plate

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The interdental plate refers to the bone-filled mesial-distal region between the teeth. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdental_plate ]

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Wikipedia:Interdental_plate

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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

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zone of bone organ and located in some diastema

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zone of bone organ
neural crest-derived structure
located in some diastema
part of some jaw skeleton