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patterns of
ridges or
lophs of
enamel interconnecting the
cusps on the crowns.
Present in most herbivores,
these patterns of
lophs can be a simple, ring-like...
- has
smooth and
slightly curved lophs (ridges). The back
lophs have a
decently thick enamel coat,
whereas the
front lophs have next to no enamel. This,...
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primitive proboscideans like
gomphotheres by
their teeth,
which have
parallel lophs,
formed from the
merger of the
cusps found in the
teeth of more primitive...
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Nwaozo Obiajulu (1973 - 2011), also
known as MC
Loph, was a
Nigerian Igbo rapper. He shot into the
limelight with "Osondi Owendi," a
single remix of Osadebe's...
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family Stegodontidae. Like elephants,
Stegodon had
teeth with plate-like
lophs that are
different from
those of more
primitive proboscideans like gomphotheres...
-
earlier proboscideans by a
major shift in the
molar morphology to
parallel lophs rather than the
cusps of
earlier proboscideans,
allowing them to become...
- have two or
three modified transverse lophs,
while the
fourth molars have
reduced lophs. The
number of
cusps per
loph varies, with 8 to 10
cusps depending...
- to have
evolved from the former. The
group is
noted for
their plate-like
lophs on
their teeth,
which are
similar to
elephants and
different from those...
- may be absent.
Tapirs are lophodonts, and
their ch****
teeth have
distinct lophs (ridges)
between protocones, paracones,
metacones and hypocones. Tapirs...
- two
distinct lophs (ridges). The
premolar is
triangular and
about half the size of the molars. As in kangaroos, the
necks of the
lophs are
coated in...
