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Fig. 5

From: A universal power law for modelling the growth and form of teeth, claws, horns, thorns, beaks, and shells

Fig. 5

Morphospace of vertebrate teeth based on power cascade Slope and Aspect Ratio. Slope = 1 indicates conical shape, Slope = 0.5 is a paraboloid, while lower Slope are progressively more blunt power cones. Aspect Ratio is length of tooth divided by width at base. Colour indicates vertebrate Class; shape indicates tooth or cusp type. Models are shown for Slope values 0.2, 0.5, and 1.0 and Aspect Ratio values 0.5, 2, and 10

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