Assessment of dental ontogeny in late Miocene hipparionines from the Lamagou fauna of Fugu, Shaanxi Province, China.
A collection of 28 hipparionine skull and mandible fossils with a dated age of approximately 7.4 Ma from Fabric Fugu, Shaanxi, northwestern China (belonging to Hipparion chiai and Hipparion cf.coelophyes) shows an age distribution in a successive development sequence.By observing the dentitions in these fossil materials, knowledge of dental ontogen