Vertebrate Adaptations

Question 0

Carnivore

Answer 0

Earliest dinos. Teeth for meat slicing. Recurve, serrations.

Question 1

Insectivore

Answer 1

Eats insects. Smaller dinos! Don’t need to chew much… Need to puncture to get juices. Up and down jaw movement.

Question 2

Herbivore

Answer 2

Because of having to break down cellulose- chew a lot! Loose jaws, work down teeth exposing cement enamel and dentin (enamel hardest so most prevalent). Front part of jaw is for cropping.

Question 3

Omnivore

Answer 3

Generalists, opportunistic. Few dinosaurs were. Slicing teeth in front chewing teeth in back. Humans