• The postorbital process is a projection on the frontal bone near the rear upper edge of the eye socket. In many mammals, it reaches down to the zygomatic...
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  • The postorbital bar (or postorbital bone) is a bony arched structure that connects the frontal bone of the skull to the zygomatic arch, which runs laterally...
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    rounded edge above the eye socket) that fits into a socket of the postorbital process, and in having an almost triangular foramen magnum (the large opening...
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    glands and are endotherms. Lagomorphs possess a moderately fused postorbital process to the cranium, unlike other small mammals. They differ in that they...
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    and which is covered by large pneumatic recesses. The postorbital bone has a small secondary process, jutting into the upper hind corner of the eye socket...
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    surface of the jaw. The otic process (rear portion) of the palatoquadrate expands upwards to articulate with the postorbital process of the chondrocranium....
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    that the frontoparietal suture crossed the skull just behind the postorbital process and the hindmost wall of the orbit. This was similar to Archaeopteryx...
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    bone) was robust, and had a broad postorbital process (which projected upwards from the jugal to contact the postorbital bone), unlike other tyrannosaurs...
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    supratemporal fossa that extends across the medial postorbital process; the subquadrate ventral squamosal process has a lateral depression, and the quadratojugal...
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    Characteristics that unite the Giganotosaurini include the presence of a postorbital process on the jugal with a wide base, and a derived femur with a weak fourth...
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    masseter muscles as seen in other rodents. It is flattened and lacks a postorbital process. The baculum is thin and distinctly forked. The penis is about 4...
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    dorsal surface of the postorbital process; the posterior expansion of the paroccipital process; the enlargement of the mastoid process; and the lack of lateral...
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    supraorbital processes are present but short, the anterior edge of the orbit is located above the second or third upper molar, the postorbital process forms...
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    parietal bones of the skull roof are flat and broad, and there is no postorbital process forming the rear rim of the orbit (eye socket). Docodontans also...
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    Anoplotherium lacks bony processes and lacrimal fossae. It has large paroccipital processes and shorter postorbital process projections of the lacrimal...
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    including postorbital has a tubercle-like thickening at the base of the jugal process, positioned between the orbit and the lowest part of the postorbital fossa...
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    geese. Such features include the hooked retroarticular process of the jaw and a postorbital process (the portion of bone forming the rear edge of the eye...
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    species are unusual in being audible to humans. Possession of the postorbital processes, the reduced, noncontacting premaxillaries, and rather simple shoulder...
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    proboscideans. Like other dinoceratans, the skull of Uintatherium lacked a postorbital process. At the back of Uintatherium's skull was a very large occipital crest...
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    the cranial region is shorter with orbits set closer together, postorbital processes are larger. Their coat is lighter and more yellowish and the paws...
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    caudomedial process of squamosal curved in caudal view, cranial pubic process with concave dorsal margin but little expansion of its cranial end, postorbital process...
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    articulation facet for postorbitofrontal squareshaped in outline; parietal postorbital process dorsally not separated by ridge from parietal table; and stapedial...
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    bordered by well-developed postorbital processes posteriorly. The postorbital processes sometimes join to form the postorbital bar. The snout is simple...
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    hispid hare are very wide. There is no clear notch in front of the postorbital processes (bone structures above the eye sockets). At its greatest length...
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    cheek teeth, a small, triangular postorbital process, and a mastoid process projecting ventral to the postglenoid process. Bonner, Nigel (1982). Seals And...
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    any suture between the parietal bone and frontal bone, and a weak postorbital process (or projection), an extended pterygoid bone in its underside and...
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    raised edges. The eye socket is not entirely closed because the postorbital process, which forms the posterior margin of the orbit, does not reach the...
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    India, a smaller cranium, orbits set closer together and larger postorbital processes; skins were yellowish with rhombus-like stripes. It has a unique...
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    the postorbital processes were very large, resulting in a broad and short dorsal table to the neurocranium; in females and juveniles, these processes were...
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    large and heavily built, with a low sagittal crest and short, wide postorbital processes (projections on the frontal bone behind the eye sockets). In fact...
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