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splanchnocranium

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Term info

Label

splanchnocranium

Synonyms
  • pharyngeal endoskeleton
  • viscerocranium
database cross reference
depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Illu_facial_bones.jpg

external definition

Anatomical cluster that is part of the cranium and consists of the jaws, hyoid, and branchial arches.[AAO], Anatomical cluster that is part of the cranium and consists of the jaws, hyoid and branchial arches.[TAO], The part of the skull derived from the embryonic pharyngeal arches. [Biology_Online][VHOG]

external ontology notes

VSAO labels this term 'pharyngeal arch' (2012-06-01) - however, it clearly means pharyngeal arch skeleton., many sources define this as the part of the endoskeletal that is from pharyngeal arches - this would make it part-disjoint from dermatocranium. However, there are many bones in AOs that have part-paths to both

has related synonym

visceral skeleton, pharyngeal arch skeleton, branchial arch skeleton, pharyngeal arch, pharyngeal skeleton, visceral cranium, visceral skeletal system, gill arch skeleton

homology notes

The skull of ancestral tetrapods has the three basic components that we have been considering: (1) chondrocranium, (2) splanchnocranium, and (3) dermatocranium (reference 1); Each part of the skull arises from a separate phylogenetic source. The most ancient part is the splanchnocranium (visceral cranium), which first arose to support pharyngeal slits in protochordates (reference 2).[well established][VHOG]

id

UBERON:0008895