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quadrate-articular joint
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A skeletal joint that connects quadrate and articular bones. [ http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evograms_05 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]
Term info
Label
quadrate-articular joint
curator notes
over time, the synapsids' quadrate-articular jaw joint (which the rest of the tetrapods possess) was replaced by a dentary-squamosal joint (which all living mammals possess), while the quadrate and articular migrated, shrank, and became part of the complex of middle ear bones., see comments for UBERON:0004744 articular/anguloarticular.
external definition
Joint that articulates quadrate and anguloarticular bones. Quadrate-articular joint is paired.[TAO]
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uberon
has related synonym
quadrate-anguloarticular joint
id
UBERON:0011170
Term relations
Equivalent to:
- skeletal joint and connects some articular/anguloarticular and connects some quadrate bone
Subclass of:
- joint connecting upper and lower jaws
- connects some quadrate bone
- connects some articular/anguloarticular