• The epipterygoid is a paired cranial bone present in many tetrapods. It acts as a vertical strut connecting the pterygoid bone of the palate to the outer...
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    its forelimbs are used for steering. Also, it has no outer ears. The epipterygoid of the jaw is well developed and the back of the nasal bones are horizontal...
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    the major part of the roof of the mouth. Above the pterygoids were the epipterygoid bones, which formed part of a flexible joint between the braincase and...
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    ancestor include the loss of teeth on the palate, the expansion of the epipterygoid bone at the base of the skull (an area called the alisphenoid in mammals)...
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    besides sizes, between Anelytropsis and Dibamus is the presence of epipterygoid and postfrontal in the Central American genus. The mandible of Dibamidae...
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  • ossifications are also collectively termed as epoccipitals. epipterygoid The epipterygoid is a paired endochondral bone at the rear part of the palate...
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    vertebrae, the lack of a hyomandibular branch of the facial nerve, and an epipterygoid bone in the skull. Geoemydidae live in tropics and subtropics of Asia...
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    ectopterygoids (linking bones between the pterygoid and maxilla). The epipterygoids (vertical bones in front of the braincase) are tall and flattened from...
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    formed by special plates above the vomers, called the "epivomers". The epipterygoid bone is shaped as a small conical vertical structure of which the base...
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    parietals, right lacrimal, prefrontal, postorbital, quadrate, pterygoid, epipterygoid and ectopterygoid, thirty-one teeth, the rear elements of the right lower...
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