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squamous part of temporal bone

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A bone which is fused with the temporal bone in many mammals and forms part of the cheek region articulating with quadrate and pterygoid in other vertebrates. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squama_temporalis https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/122 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squamosal_bone ]

Term info

Label

squamous part of temporal bone

Synonyms
  • os squamosum
  • pars squamosa (os temporale)
  • pars squamosa ossis temporalis
  • squama temporalis
  • squamosal
  • squamosal bone
  • squamosum
  • squamous bone
  • temporal bone squamous part
database cross reference
Subsets

pheno_slim

latin term
pars squamosa ossis temporalis [ FMA : 52883 FMA : TA ]

latin term
os squamosum

contributor

https://github.com/cmungall, https://github.com/mellybelly

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Skull_synapsida_1.png, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Gray144.png

editor note

consider separate class for squamosal OR making squamosal the primary label

external definition

Paired, intramembranous bones that lie at the posterolateral margins of the skull. Lateral and dorsal to the quadrate.[AAO], The squamosal bone is part of the dermatocranium in early tetrapods and becomes part of the mammalian occipital and temporal bones. [Bemis_WE, Functional_Anatomy_of_the_Vertebrates:_An_Evolutionary_Perspective, Grande_L, Third_Edition_(2001)_Orlando_Fla.:_Harcourt_College_Publishers, Walker_WF, p.246, see_Liem_KF][VHOG]

has related synonym

squama, squama temporalis

id

UBERON:0001695

taxon notes

The squamosal bone, which is homologous with the squama, and forms the side of the cranium in many bony fish and tetrapods. Primitively, it is a flattened plate-like bone, but in many animals it is narrower in form, for example, where it forms the boundary between the two temporal fenestrae of diapsid reptiles