- An
endocast is the
internal cast of a
hollow object,
often referring to the
cranial vault in the
study of
brain development in
humans and
other organisms...
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Paleoneurobiology is the
study of
brain evolution by
analysis of
brain endocasts to
determine endocranial traits and volumes.
Considered a subdivision...
- Dart. When Dart
examined the
contents of the crate, he
found a
fossilized endocast of a
skull showing the
impression of a
complex brain. He
quickly searched...
- of the
inside of the
skull cavity (endocranial
casts or
endocasts) have been found.
Endocasts are
formed when
sediments fill the
empty skull,
after which...
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Phytosaurs (Φυτόσαυροι in Gr****,
meaning 'plant lizard') are an
extinct group of large,
mostly semiaquatic Late Tri****ic
archosauriform or
basal archosaurian...
- "Paleoneurology of the
Proboscidea (Mammalia, Afrotheria):
Insights from
Their Brain Endocast and Labyrinth". In Dozo, M. T.; Paulina-Carabajal, A.; Macrini, T. E.;...
- Macrini, T. E.; Rougier, G. W.; Rowe, T. (2007). "Description of a
Cranial Endocast from the
Fossil Mammal Vincelestes neuqueni**** (Theriiformes) and its...
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cavity than that of
modern reptiles, and so an
endocast was
created and studied. This was not the
first endocast of an
ankylopolloxian brain, for in 1893,...
- ungulates,
although they are not as
clearly pronounced in D. minor. The
endocasts of the
petrous part of the
temporal bone (or petrosals) of
Diplobune differ...
- 1880s, a cast of the
brain cavity or
endocast of the animal,
which gave an
indication of the
brain size. The
endocast showed the
brain was
indeed very small...