- the tooth. In both
upper molars and premolars, the
metalophs and the
protolophs are
distinctly bulbous. The
lower premolars and
molars are
similar and...
-
secondary crest of the
ectoloph is
called crista;
antecrochet to that of the
protoloph, and
crochet to that of the metaloph. The
suffix "-crista / -cristid"...
-
teeth called a
protocone was not
connected to a
tooth crest called a
protoloph.
Hipparion is also
characterized by its
facial fossa, or deep depression...
- lack an
ectocingulum and are
dominated by well-developed
ectoloph and
protoloph.
Additional lophs formed in some
derived taxa. They had
lower molars with...
- and a weak, π-shaped
crown pattern formed by the
incipient ectoloph,
protoloph, and
metaloph (crests on the crowns). This
arrangement closely resembles...
- crest. De
Bruijn interpreted the four main
crests as the anteroloph,
protoloph, metaloph, and
posteroloph from
front to back and
wrote that
these crests...
-
cusps (protocone, paracone, hypocone, and metacone) and
lophs or
crests (
protoloph, mesoloph, metaloph, and posteroloph),
separated by
synclines or valleys...
- last two teeth),
bilophodont and three-rooted. Of the
molars lophs the
protoloph is more
developed thanks to the
higher trigon. The
lophs of each tooth...
- premolars. The
upper molars have a
lingual sulcus that
separates the
protolophs from the metalophs. The
third and
fourth premolars have a sub-triangular...
-
rudimentary hypocone. The
protocone is
connected to the
paracone by a
protoloph,
which lacks a
small cusp (the paraconule). No
crest connects the protocone...