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palpebral bone
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An ossified element investing the upper eyelid. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palpebral_(bone) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16496288 ]
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palpebral bone
editor note
PMID:16496288 says 'invests' the eyelid, is this consistent across taxa?
has broad synonym
palpebral
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uberon
id
UBERON:0010309
taxon notes
The most extreme development of the palpebral is found in the armored dino- saur Euoplocephalus tutus, where the bone forms a quarter-sphere and adducts to completely occlude the or- bit (Coombs, 1972; Vickaryous and Russell, 2003). Notwithstanding the superficially similar position, palpe- brals and tarsal plates differ both anatomically and developmentally and are not considered homologous (Gauthier et al., 1988)