squamosal in a sentence
Examples
- The squamosal carries at least six, and perhaps as many as eight, episquamosals, osteoderms on the frill rim.
- As it spans the suture between the squamosal and the parietal, this has been called an epiparietosquamosal or " EPS ".
- The quadratojugal joined the squamosal and sealed up the lateral temporal fenestra from the ancestral species ( " Paraplacodus " ).
- The subsquamosal fenestra, an opening at the back of the skull determined by the shape of the squamosal, is almost absent.
- The squamosal has a high ridge on its upper surface, running from the direction of the eye socket towards the squamosal rim.
- The squamosal has a high ridge on its upper surface, running from the direction of the eye socket towards the squamosal rim.
- It was usually assumed that the top rear element of the skull was the supratemporal bone while the squamosal and quadratojugal were sometimes fused.
- They are also known for having a jugal horn and a thin parietal-squamosal shelf that extends back and up into a frill.
- The subsquamosal fenestra, an opening in the back part of the skull determined by the shape of the squamosal bone, is present.
- The squamosal lacks a suspensory process that contacts the tegmen tympani, the roof of the tympanic cavity, a defining character of oryzomyines.