Otic notches are invaginations in the posterior margin of the skull roof, one behind each orbit. Otic notches are one of the features lost in the evolution...

middle ear Otic capsule, another name for bony labyrinth Otic drops, another name for ear drops Otic notch, notch in skull of some species Otic pit, developmental...

details of their skulls, most notably the interior structure of their otic notches at the back of the skull. They were among the earliest-diverging members...

edge of the otic notch, and likely served as a conduit of vibrations received by a tympanum (eardrum) which presumably lay within the otic notch. In this...

Most temnospondyls have an indentation at the back of the skull called otic notches. It has typically been inferred that this structure supported a typanum...

fish. In tetrapods the spiracle seems to have developed first into the otic notch of early tetrapods where it was still used in respiration and incapable...

skull bones. The squamosal bone lies ventral to the temporal series and otic notch, and is bordered anteriorly by the postorbital. Posteriorly, the squamosal...

covering, accounting for an older term for the group: "Stegocephalia". Otic notch behind each eye at the back edge of the skull. In earlier fully aquatic...

patch of connective tissue) evolved on the end of each tube (called the otic notch); and the ceratohyal and basihyal merged into the hyoid. These "fishapods"...

changes to the otic notch during development. Dictyocephalus was thus maintained as a valid genus of metoposaurids with shallow otic notches. The most recent...