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prefrontal bone
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A bone separating the lacrimal and frontal bones in many tetrapod skulls [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefrontal_bone ]
Term info
Label
prefrontal bone
depicted by
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Dromaeosaurus_skull_en.svg
has broad synonym
prefrontal
has obo namespace
uberon
id
UBERON:0010750
taxon notes
It first evolved in the sarcopterygian clade Rhipidistia, which includes lungfish and the Tetrapodomorpha. The prefrontal is found in most modern and extinct lungfish, amphibians and reptiles. It is very small, fused to the frontals or lost in many groups of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs and is completely absent in their modern descendants, the birds. The prefrontal was also lost in early mammaliaforms and so is not present in modern mammals either
Term relations
Subclass of:
- dermal bone
- facial bone
- adjacent_to some lacrimal bone
- adjacent_to some tetrapod frontal bone
- has part some (part of some orbit of skull)
- part of some dermatocranium