• Thumbnail for Paradoxurus
    palate is not produced behind to cover the anterior half of the mesopterygoid fossa, and is flat and expanded between the posterior cheek teeth. The...
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  • Thumbnail for Colombian weasel
    bulla located near the dorsal midline on the body, along with a wide mesopterygoid fossa. The soles of the feet lack any fur, and extensive webbing is located...
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  • Thumbnail for Marsh rice rat
    palatal pits, which are recessed into fossae (depressions). The mesopterygoid fossa, the gap behind the end of the palate, is perforated by sphenopalatine...
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  • Thumbnail for Pardofelis
    Oriental genera by having the skull higher and more rounded, with the mesopterygoid fossa lanceolate in front and provided with thickened margins or a better...
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  • Thumbnail for Eremoryzomys
    molars) are complex; the sphenopalatine vacuities (openings in the mesopterygoid fossa, the gap behind the end of the palate) are large; the pattern of...
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  • Thumbnail for Key Largo woodrat
    shape of the sphenopalatine vacuities (openings in the roof of the mesopterygoid fossa, the gap behind the palate), which are narrower and shorter than...
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  • Thumbnail for Oryzomys couesi
    and lack of sphenopalatine vacuities (openings in the roof of the mesopterygoid fossa, the gap behind the end of the bony palate). They considered that...
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  • Thumbnail for Hammond's rice rat
    margins of the maxillary bone. In most specimens, the roof of the mesopterygoid fossa, the gap behind the back of the palate, is not perforated by sphenopalatine...
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  • Thumbnail for Akodon spegazzinii
    (medial process) sometimes present. The opening behind the palate, the mesopterygoid fossa, is of intermediate width, being narrower than in A. sylvanus, A...
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  • rodents, sphenopalatine vacuities are perforations of the roof of the mesopterygoid fossa, the open space behind the palate, in between the parapterygoid fossae...
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  • Thumbnail for Lagidium ahuacaense
    back to a point close to the upper third molar. The sides of the mesopterygoid fossa (the opening behind the back margin of the palate) are more strongly...
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  • Thumbnail for Thomasomys ucucha
    palatal pits at the back of the palate, near the third molars. The mesopterygoid fossa, an opening located behind the end of the palate, is broad and its...
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  • Thumbnail for Oryzomys
    longer fur, and larger sphenopalatine vacuities (openings in the mesopterygoid fossa, the gap behind the end of the palate). As Weksler's 2006 analysis...
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  • Thumbnail for Northern voalavo
    of the middle of the third molars (M3). In the bony roof of the mesopterygoid fossa, the opening behind the palate, wide sphenopalatine vacuities (openings)...
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  • Thumbnail for Transandinomys bolivaris
    by posterolateral palatal pits there. Behind it, the roof of the mesopterygoid fossa is perforated by poorly developed sphenopalatine vacuities. The auditory...
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  • Thumbnail for Voalavo
    featureless bony palate, without many pits and ridges, and a broad mesopterygoid fossa (the opening behind the palate). In other characteristics, Voalavo...
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  • Thumbnail for Transandinomys
    of the palate, near the third molars) are poorly developed. The mesopterygoid fossa, the gap behind the back margin of the palate, does not usually reach...
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  • Thumbnail for Oryzomys dimidiatus
    the first molars and are broadest in their back halves. The broad mesopterygoid fossa, the gap behind the end of the palate, is perforated by sphenopalatine...
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  • Thumbnail for Oryzomys gorgasi
    third molars, which are excavated into deep fossae. The roof of the mesopterygoid fossa, the opening behind the palate, is not perforated by sphenopalatine...
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  • Thumbnail for Transandinomys talamancae
    may or may not be recessed into a fossa. The sphenopalatine vacuities (openings in the roof of the mesopterygoid fossa, behind the palate) are also small...
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  • Thumbnail for Juliomys anoblepas
    (the portion of the palate between the incisive foramina and the mesopterygoid fossa behind the back end of the palate) is 4.29 mm long and 2.75 mm broad...
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  • Thumbnail for Drymoreomys
    and are located in slight fossas (depressions). In Eremoryzomys, these fossas are deeper. The roof of the mesopterygoid fossa, the opening behind the palate...
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  • Thumbnail for Euryoryzomys emmonsae
    the molars) and lacks sphenopalatine vacuities which perforate the mesopterygoid fossa, the gap behind the end of the palate. The animal is similar to other...
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  • Thumbnail for Akodon caenosus
    part of the palate) extend back to between the first molars. The mesopterygoid fossa, the openings behind the bony palate, is very narrow. In the mandible...
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  • Thumbnail for Oligoryzomys flavescens
    the hard palate) that usually reach the first molar, and the short mesopterygoid fossa (a depression behind the end of the palate) which does not extend...
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  • displaced to the back from their usual position just before the mesopterygoid fossa into the fossa. The condition of the pits has been used to separate species...
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  • Thumbnail for Oecomys sydandersoni
    palatal pits, located near the third molars, are well developed. The mesopterygoid fossa, the opening behind the end of the palate, is rounded at the frond...
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