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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...
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being followed in
sequence by the frontals, the parietals, and the
postparietals.
Their form in
living species is
highly variable,
depending on the shape...
- 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...
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Postfrontals Postorbitals Parietals (midline)
Intertemporals Supratemporals Postparietals (midline)
Tabulars The
skull roof
itself formed a
continuous cover over...
- 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...
- 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...
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smaller elements at the back of the skull,
namely the
postparietals and tabulars. The
postparietals are not part of the
continuous flat
surface at the back...
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caniniform region in
maxillary tooth row
External nares close to the
midline Postparietal absent Squamosal mainly restricted to top of
skull The
occipital flange...
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supraoccipital and the parietal,
which can only be
homologous to the
postparietals of
basal amniotes.
There may be
something similar in some
species of...
- the parietals,
continuing sideways over the dermopterotica, and the
postparietals. The
parietals have a
notch on the
front midline. A dermosphenoti****...