Re: Janensch translation?

["K and T Dykes" <ktdykes@arcor.de>]

<<That's the beginning and the end. The middle... I've never encountered 
_Usur_ in German. But French _usure_ means "use" as in "wear", doesn't it? 
It's clearly about wear facets.>>

Ich aber doch!  That's mammal papers for you.  I've just plucked out a 
convenient example that was easy to find (for me): Krebs B, 
/Drescheratherium acutum/ gen. et sp. nov., ein neuer Eupantothierier 
(Mammalia) aus dem Oberen Jura von Portugal, Berliner geowiss. Abh., E28, 
p.91-111.

Taking a sentence about the third upper premolar on page 99: "Die 
Hauptspitze trägt eine kleine, das mesiale accessorische Spitchen eine 
winzige Usur."  My translation: "The main cone has a small, and the mesial 
accessory cuspule a tiny wear facet".  Without bothering to check, I seem to 
recall the Hahns use 'Usur' in the couple of their German language papers 
I've seen.