In the mandible , teeth are found on the dentary bones; on the cranium they may be on the maxilliary, premaillary , palatine or pterygoid bones. The teeth themselves may be pleurodont ( along the side of the bone) or acrodont ( along the crest of the bone). In some lizards theodont teeth ( fitting in the sockets) are found, but along with one of the other types. The teeth may be pyramidal , conical , flat , bicuspid or tricuspid. They can be quickly and frequently replaced.
Between the maxilliary, premaxilliary and septomaxilliary bones is a large gap in the cranium. This is in effect the internal nasal arch through which the nostrils draw air through the skull into the mouth. Another gap exists a little behind this , usually behind the middle of the skull , and in here that the eye is housed. Along the ocular cavity is a bone or pair of bones , called the frontals. This is a centrally located bone met anterior by the nasals or occasionally the prefrontal. It is bordered posterior by the parietal. Along the border of the frontal and parietal , or often in the center of the parietal. may be found a single round eye. It is this small aperature that may be the pineal gland or “third eye” is located. In species lacking the eye. this pineal foramen is often absent.
There may be a temporal arch, an arch of bone created by the postorbital and squamosal bones. The lower arch . formed by an extension of the jugular with the quadrate. is not generally found in lizards , but does occur in tuarta, Sphendodon, a lizard like animal inhabitant of New Zealand. In some lizards and all snakes the upper temporal arch is lacking; in these forms the squamosal bone is rudimentary or absent.
Richard Dawkins – Children in the Atheist’s Den, part 3 of 8 – “One point of uncertainty was the angle at which the face attached to the cranium. Alan Walker remembers an occasion when he, Michael Day, and Richard Leakey were studying the two sections of the skull. ‘You could hold the maxilla …
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The Pineal Gland, LSD, and Serotonin — Updated: October 15, 1996 – The parietal nerve leaves the retina, passes through the capsule, and courses posteriorly under the roof of the cranium and then ventrally to the epiphysis and brain. [9] We know that the parietal eye is functional because there are …
A Theory For The Birds – No larger eyes (almost filling up the cranium), and no coordinating system to OPERATE all these complex systems. Let’s understand. You can have an entire plane — but rip out the controls and instrument panel and the plane will be of no …
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trip to science centre, and comex fair – parasaurolophus, a hadrosaur (duck-billed reptile with curved crest across cranium). stegosaurus, largest of the stegosaurids. allosaurus, a carnosaur from the jurassic period. dilophosaurus, a slender carnivore with crests on head, …
One last aspect of the skull , that should be mentioned and covered is the occipital condyle. the point where the cranium is fixed to the skull. This is a point of bone ( single in lizards and other reptiles) where the first vertebra, the atlas attaches to the skull. It is not always the hindmost part of the skull.
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