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- surrounded by the epoccipital bones. The name is a misnomer, as they are not ****ociated with the occipital bone.[citation needed] Epoccipitals begin as separate...
- parietal bones grew into a relatively short, bony frill, adorned with epoccipitals in young specimens. These were low triangular processes on the frill...
- The distinctive shape of the frill with the hornlets on its edges (epoccipitals) make it possible to recognize species from incomplete or fragmentary...
- parietal bone flanked by elongated squamosals and sometimes ringed by epoccipitals, bony ****s that gave the margin a jagged appearance. In the early 1900s...
- Torosaurus). This was explained by the ****umption that the number of epoccipitals increased during maturation. Also, it was pointed out that both number...
- ceratopsids and had a strange configuration of epoccipitals (bones surrounding the frill). It possessed ten epoccipitals, eight of which were centrally flattened...
- appear to have been capped by epoccipitals, bones that lined the frills of ceratopsids. In Achelousaurus these epoccipitals, which start as separate skin...
- from all other known centrosaurines); and the presence of broad-based epoccipitals (differing from all other known centrosaurines). Sinoceratops was ****igned...
- latter.: 500 : 538  epoccipital Epoccipitals are dermal ossifications lining the edges of the frills of ceratopsians. Epoccipitals are distinct bones in...
- lower border of the fenestra interpraemaxillaris. The episquamosals, the epoccipitals of the squamosal, thus the skin ossifications lining and often protruding...