Re: Any thoughts on tooth loss patterns?

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> Seems to me to depend in the case.

Certainly.

> > Phylogenetically, do animals simply reduce the teeth they have before
they
> > become edentulous?

*Shenzhouraptor* does this, it seems.

> > Or do they hold on to a few big teeth before they losing the last of
them?
>
> _Oviraptorosauria_, _Ornithurae_ (combined with reduction), _Xenarthra_

The giant armadillo, *Priodontes giganteus*, has up to 100 small teeth which
fall out with age.