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In most modern reptiles and amphibians, the quadratojugal is a prominent, straplike bone in the skull and provides structural integrity in the postorbital region of the skull. [6] In many reptiles, the inner face of the quadratojugal also connects to the quadrate bone which forms the cranium's contribution to the jaw joint.
The jugal bone is located on either side of the skull in the circumorbital region. It is the origin of several masticatory muscles in the skull. [1] The jugal and lacrimal bones are the only two remaining from the ancestral circumorbital series: the prefrontal, postfrontal, postorbital, jugal, and lacrimal bones.
The quadrate bone is a skull bone in most tetrapods, including amphibians, sauropsids (reptiles, birds), and early synapsids. In most tetrapods, the quadrate bone connects to the quadratojugal and squamosal bones in the skull, and forms upper part of the jaw joint.
Zatracheidids are distinguished by lateral (sideways) bony protuberances of the quadratojugal bone of the skull, and a large opening in the snout called the internarial fontanelle (sometimes the internarial fenestra) that is bordered by enlarged premaxillae. The skull is flattened, with small orbits or eye sockets set far
The Shawnee Lookout Archeological District is a historic district in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Ohio. [1] Located southwest of Cleves in Hamilton County's Miami Township, [2] the district is composed of forty-six archaeological sites spread out over an area of 2,000 acres (810 ha). [1]
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation joined Summit County Medical Examiner Dr. Lisa Kohler at a Thursday news conference to unveil a digital forensic facial reconstruction based on remains ...
The skulls of both specimens aren't fully preserved, however, the type specimen skull measures to be about 130 mm in length and the other specimen measuring around 120 mm. [1] The honeycomb pattern produced from the pit-and-ridge system, that is characteristic of Temnospondyls, is also observed in Adamanterpeton .
The children found the severed skull while playing in the woods in Eaton, located about 25 miles west of Dayton, on May 25, 1968, according to a news release from Moxxy Forensic Investigations.