ISSN:
1824-310X
Keywords:
Hominid tooth
;
Hypoplasticity
;
Microstructure
;
Midpleistocene
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Biology
Notes:
Abstract Through systematic excavations in a loamy layer of a travertine quarry at Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt in 1981, a crown and a root of a tooth were discovered. The stratigraphic and TL-dating give a geochronological age of Holstein II or nearly 300 Ky. In 1981 these two fragments were published and diagnosed by their micromorphological structure by the present author as a lower left hominid canine. Adam (1986) and Schott (1989) pointed out that the two fragments must be of one tooth ofCervus elaphus ignoring the fragmentary preservation of the crown and the differences of the shape of the preserved cervical part of the crown in contrast to that of the isolated root. The overall morphology, including the micromorphology together with the metric evaluation and a comparison with the teeth ofCervus elaphus, determine the two fragments as a hypoplastic crown of a left lower human canine and a root which belongs possibly to an upper molar.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02440155
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