edentate

"If we ever get the chance, we'll select for an edentate jaw."

In 1893, Henry Fairfield Osborn remarked that new studies of edentate teeth indicated that they were not as distinct as Thomas thought.

Phylogenetic analyses using homologous sequences from all extant edentate groups indicates that the Mylodontidae were closer related to Megalonychidae than to Bradypodidae.

Angle CR and McIntire MS: Lead poisoning during pregnancy: fetal tolerance of calcium disodium edentate.

William Berryman Scott did, however, place Paratheria as a separate subclass in 1904, although he apparently did not follow Thomas's theories about the origins of edentate teeth.

Up until then, the specimen's identity had been undeterminable, with even Seeley describing it at first to seem like "the dermal covering of an Edentate closely allied to the Armadilloes."

The island has also yielded fragments of armor plate from an edentate like the modern armadillo or its ancient South American relative, the glyptodont, which grew to a length of nine feet.