Article about deer antlers: Antler tine homologies and cervid systematics

[Keith_Beef]

Had a bit of trouble finding a good place to post this link...

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.24956

Stumbled across it when searching for "surroyal tine" mentioned in a book on the Puukko.

 

[Seagull]

By gum, that's a full-on and very informative job , one that I feel needs a few readings.
Ceeg

 

[Pattree]

Gosh!
I usually just go by looking!

Homology isn’t an EDC for me.

 

[John Fenna]

Wow - details!

 

[Pattree]

@Keith_Beef - You can’t leave it hanging like that!!!!

Now look what you’ve made me do!

Brow Tine – The point at which the first antler branches off.

Bay Tine – The second branching-off point.

Tray Tine – The third branching-off mark.

Surroyal Tine – Fourth branch on a separate tine of a deer's antler. Fork – End of the antler that forks out into two tines.

I hadn’t realised before now that multiple branching doesn’t happen until the fourth branch so in fact I have learned something.
I’m guessing that the antler is particularly dense at this point.