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x Scheffer, Victor B.
  1970
Growth layers in a dugong tooth.
Jour. Mamm. 51(1): 187-190. 2 figs. Feb. 20, 1970.
–Discusses the dugong dentition and the size of the tusks; suggests, on the basis of a study of a sectioned tusk, that finer growth layers in the dentin represent days, coarser layers lunar months. The calculated age, however, differs depending on which side of the tusk is used.

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Age Determination
(SEE ALSO: Birth and Breeding; Embryology & Ontogeny; Growth Rates; Population Biology)
x  1970Scheffer, V.B. (DD; tusks; 187-190.)
Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
x  1970Scheffer, V.B. (tusk growth; 187-190.)
Skeleton
(SEE ALSO: Age Determination; Embryology and Ontogeny; Histology; Myology; Sense Organs; Tooth Replacement; and under species)
x  1970Scheffer, V.B. (DD; teeth; growth layers; 187-190.)
Tooth Replacement
x  1970Scheffer, V.B. (DD; 187.)