Definition of Squamosal. Meaning of Squamosal. Synonyms of Squamosal

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Definition of Squamosal

Squamosal
Squamosal Squa*mo"sal, a. (Anat.) (a) Scalelike; squamous; as, the squamosal bone. (b) Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone. -- n. The squamous part of the temporal bone, or a bone correspondending to it, under Temporal.

Meaning of Squamosal from wikipedia

- The squamosal is a skull bone found in most reptiles, amphibians, and birds. In fishes, it is also called the pterotic bone. In most tetrapods, the squamosal...
- The squamosal suture, or squamous suture, arches backward from the pterion and connects the temporal squama with the lower border of the parietal bone:...
- which is ventrally bordered by a zygomatic arch composed of the jugal and squamosal bones. This single temporal fenestra is homologous to the infratemporal...
- left squamosal (YPM VP 335) later referred to Stygimoloch spinifer near Lance Cr****, Wyoming, in the Lance Formation. Marsh described the squamosal along...
- suture Sphenoparietal suture Sphenosquamosal suture Sphenozygomatic suture Squamosal suture – between the parietal and the temporal bone Zygomaticotemporal...
- of the dentary (the lower jaw bone, which carries the teeth) and the squamosal (another small skull bone). In the Jur****ic, their quadrate and articular...
- A ridge bearing a single roughened projection near the bottom of the squamosal bone, which probably supported a small horn, allows Yehuecauhceratops...
- in more basal synapsids, but also the squamosal and surangular bones. A joint between the dentary and squamosal bones, as seen in modern mammals, was...
- a special, secondarily evolved jaw joint between the dentary and the squamosal bones, which in more derived taxa would replace the primitive tetrapod...
- specimens the species is based on. The species is represented only by two squamosal bones collected from approximately time-equivalent sections of the upper...