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- Postparietals are cranial bones present in fish and many tetrapods. Although initially a pair of bones, many lineages possess postparietals which were...
- being followed in sequence by the frontals, the parietals, and the postparietals. Their form in living species is highly variable, depending on the shape...
- supratemporal and tabular bones at the rear edge of the skull. Lone postparietals are rare among non-amniote tetrapods and tetrapod relatives; only Ichthyostega...
- Postfrontals Postorbitals Parietals (midline) Intertemporals Supratemporals Postparietals (midline) Tabulars The skull roof itself formed a continuous cover over...
- braincase, above the foramen magnum and below or behind the parietals or postparietals. It is homologous to the squamous part of the occipital bone, which...
- non-mammalian tetrapods, they are bordered to the rear by a pair of postparietal bones that may be solely in the roof of the skull, or slope downwards...
- which did not have an antorbital fenestra but did retain tabulars, postparietals and a large pineal foramen (Broom, 1914). Broom coined the term as a...
- the parietals, continuing sideways over the dermopterotica, and the postparietals. The parietals have a notch on the front midline. A dermosphenoti****...
- caniniform region in maxillary tooth row External nares close to the midline Postparietal absent Squamosal mainly restricted to top of skull The occipital flange...
- four separate elements around the foramen magnum, along with the paired postparietal bones that form the rear of the cranial roof in other vertebrates. Position...