sagittal crest in a sentence
Examples
- Only one of the many skulls found at Bili had a sagittal crest, thus it cannot yet be considered typical for the population.
- The cotton-top tamarin has a long sagittal crest, consisting of white hairs, from forehead to nape flowing over the shoulders.
- Prominent sagittal crests are found among male gorillas and orangutans, and do occur but only rarely in male chimpanzees such as Bili apes.
- The skull is entirely typical of the genus, having a very high sagittal crest, a shortened facial region and an inflated frontal bone.
- Much of the data assumes that the length of the sagittal crest increased at a greater rate in relation to the rest of the skull.
- The temporal lines join together anteriorly into a sagittal crest and there is a distinct nuchal ridge that joins the rear of the zygomatic arch.
- Tyrannosaurid skulls had many unique characteristics, including fused parietal bones with a prominent sagittal crest, which ran basal tyrannosauroid " Appalachiosaurus ".
- The surfaces of these bones also bear perforations for blood vessels, especially around the edges of the supratemporal fenestrae, have a distinctive sagittal crest.
- The first change he suggested in the appearance of machairodonts were lower ears, or rather the illusion of lower ears due to the higher sagittal crest.
- Smaller sagittal crests are also present on the skulls of other Paranthropines, including " Paranthropus boisei " and " Paranthropus robustus ".