The parietal completely fuses at an early stage with its fellow, and the exoccipitalis drawn out into a long paroccipital process (fig.
Two foramina pierce the exoccipital just in front of the occipital condyle and transmit respectively the glossopharyngeal and pneumogastric (fig.
The pro-otic lies in front of the exoccipital and together with the opisthotic forms the hind border of the fenestra ovalis.
The exoccipitalis pierced by a number of foramina, four lying on the posterior surface.
There is a large paroccipital process to the exoccipital and the mandible has a long slender coronoid process.
Immediately behind the tympanic, between it and the mastoid process of the periotic and the paroccipital process of the exoccipital is the =stylomastoid foramen= (fig.
Behind the internal auditory meatus, between the periotic and exoccipital is seen the internal opening of the =foramen lacerum posterius= (fig.
XII), which perforates theexoccipital just behind the foramen lacerum posterius.
In front there is the prootic, which often meets the exoccipital behind; behind there is above and in close connection with the supraoccipital the epiotic, and below in close connection with the exoccipital the opisthotic.
The periotic capsule is ossified by a prootic centre, which meets theexoccipital behind.
The exoccipital extends in an angle farther forward in europaeus, and the suture between it and the zygomatic is, in consequence, less nearly vertical than in bidens.
The exoccipitalis larger and broader distally below, and its external surface is plane or concave, rather than convex, as in arnuxii.
The exoccipital extends laterally, occupying the posterior face of the otic capsule.
But this, as mentioned above, does not hold for the Proteidae, which possess an opisthotic of relatively large size, distinctly separate from the exoccipital and prootic.
The left exoccipital condyle and adjacent region is less developed than the right and the posterior part of the skull is bent slightly to the left.
The skull (plates 25 and 26) lacks the right exoccipital condyle and posterior half of the right zygomatic arch.
Least distance from a line connecting the posteriormost parts of the exoccipital condyles to a line connecting the anteriormost projections of the premaxillary bones.
The fenestra postotica on skulls of ferox and especially muticus is not normally restricted by an opisthotic-exoccipital spur.
In the skull, spinifer more closely resembles ferox than muticus, but differs from both ferox and muticus in usually having a well-developed opisthotic-exoccipital spur.
Frequency and Degree of Development of Opisthotic Exoccipital Spur of North American Species of the Genus Trionyx (excluding ater).
Skulls of muticus resemble those of ferox but differ from those of spinifer in usually lacking a well-developed opisthotic-exoccipital spur.
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