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suborbital shelf
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On the neurocranium, a horizontal plate arising on the ventral junction of the orbital wall and basal plate on each side which extends from the nasal capsule to the otic capsule; it forms the floor of the orbit. [ ]
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suborbital shelf
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Definition from: LJV Compagno. 2002. Sharks of the World Volume 2; FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes No. 1
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UBERON:0018361
taxon notes
A well-developed suborbital shelf is apparently primitive for shark-like fishes but is variably telescoped, reduced or lost in many squalomorph sharks and a few galeomorphs.