- The
postfrontal is a
paired cranial bone
found in many tetrapods. It
occupies an area of the
skull roof
between and
behind the
orbits (eye sockets), lateral...
- reduced. The
walls of the
braincase are bony but lack
supratemporal and
postfrontal bones.
Their tongues are not free, but held in
place by a
membrane that...
-
additional bones not
found in mammals.
These bones, the
prefrontals and
postfrontals,
together form the
upper margin of the eye sockets, and lie to either...
-
mostly disarticulated.
Bones we have
found are: left quadratojugal,
postfrontal, supratemporal, postorbital,
basioccipital and both
tubera basioccipitalia...
-
located behind the
postfrontal and
posteriorly to the
orbital fenestra. In some vertebrates, the
postorbital is
fused with the
postfrontal to
create a postorbitofrontal...
- the maxilla, and may or may not be in
contact with the
nasal bone. The
postfrontal bone,
usually present,
borders the
orbit behind,
rarely also above, and...
-
Boids are, however,
distinguished from the
pythons in that none has
postfrontal bones or
premaxillary teeth, and that they give
birth to live young....
-
prefrontals (another pair of
skull roof bones) due to the
nasals and
postfrontals (two
other pairs of
skull roof bones)
touching each
other and blocking...
- anteriorly, with 2 or 3 very
small teeth in the
middle of the
dentary bone.
Postfrontal bone absent. Head small, not
distinct from neck,
covered with
large symmetrical...
- the roof of the
skull are known,
including the frontals, prefrontals,
postfrontals and
parietal bones,
although the
fragmentary parietal preserves little...
