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Table 3 Dental stage of earliest identifiable ossification centers

From: Identifying the homology of the short human pisiform and its lost ossification center

Taxonomic group

Pisiform

Calcaneus

Primary

Unfused

Unfused

Human

M2 erupting

M1 erupting

Chimpanzee

Deciduous

M1 erupting

M1 erupting

Bonobo

Deciduous

M1 erupted

M1 erupting

Gorilla

Deciduous

M1 erupted

Deciduous

Orangutan

M1 erupting

M2 erupted

M1 erupted

Gibbon and siamang

M1 erupted

M2 erupting

M1 erupted

Macaque

Deciduous

M1 erupting

M1 erupting