Dental formulas for various mammals. The dental formula describes the number of incisors, canines, premolars and molars per quadrant. Upper and lower teeth may differ and are therefore shown separately. The total number of teeth is twice the number given.
Format
Data frame with 66 rows and 9 variables:
- name
name of the mammal
- I
number of top incisors
- i
number of bottom incisors
- C
number of top canines
- c
number of bottom canines
- P
number of top premolars
- p
number of bottom premolars
- M
number of top molars
- m
number of bottom molars
Source
The data have been downloaded from https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/datasets/hartigan/file19.txt
They come from the following textbook:
Hartigan, J. A. (1975). Clustering Algorithms, John Wiley, New York.
Table 9.1, page 170.