There is an interparietal foramen, and the supratemporal fossae (fig.
As regards the skull, the quadrate is large and fixed, and supratemporal and infratemporal fossae bounded by bone occur.
The temporal fossae are large, and there is a strong sagittal crest.
Supratemporal, infratemporal, and post-temporal fossae occur, but no interparietal foramen.
The supratemporal fossae are surrounded by bone on all sides, and the parietals, and often also the frontals are united.
In some Dinosaurs, such as Ceratosaurus, they are very small, while the infratemporal fossae are correspondingly large.
The skull in Labyrinthodontia is remarkable for its extreme solidity, the large number of bones which are present, and the extent to which the roofing over of the temporal and other fossae has taken place.
Both supra- and infra-temporal fossae are partially or completely roofed over by the postorbitals and large supra-temporals (fig.
The supratemporal fossae are small, and open posteriorly, the lateral temporal fossae are very large.
The spine and acromion are well developed, and the prescapular and postscapular fossae are nearly equal in size.
The hard palate, U, which forms the roof of the mouth, is extended further backwards by the soft palate, V, which hangs as the loose velum of the throat between the nasal fossae above and the fauces below.
Both nasal fossae are open anteriorly and posteriorly; but laterally they do not, in the normal state of these parts, communicate.
The structures observable in both the nasal fossae absolutely correspond, and the foramina which open into each correspond likewise.
The nasal fossae are situated on either side of the median partition formed by the vomer and cartilaginous nasal septum.
The two posterior nares answering to the two nasal fossae open into the upper part of the bag of the pharynx at 8, Plate 20, which marks the opening of the Eustachian tube.
The skull is much more depressed than in elephantopus and with deeper temporal fossae and a shorter post orbital region.
Then the supraoccipital never has a very strongly developed median prominence, and the temporal fossae are comparatively short.
This fact must be borne in mind in studying the arrangement of certain folds and fossae of the parietal peritoneum which are now to be considered.
Several peritoneal fossae and folds are found in the ileo-colic region in connection with the caecum, appendix and termination of the ileum.
For arrangement of the ileo-caecal folds and fossae in this form see p.
Such fossae are found around the duodeno-jejuneal angle, the caecum and appendix, and the sigmoid flexure.
The temporal fossae are a little longer than the orbit in europaeus, but a little shorter than the orbit in bidens; in the former the superior margin is flat or a little concave, rather than convex.
The temporal fossae also have a postero-superior angular enlargement not seen in the latter.
These fossae were probably the recesses between the columnae carnae.
But the flat is full of fossae of old barabras (pit and tunnel dwellings), all wood on surface gone; and there is a cemetery to the right and behind, on a slope.
The pterygoid fossae are large and the bullae are reduced as in Z.
Incisors narrow; molars divided into transverse laminae; pterygoid fossae short; auditory bullae usually large; hind limbs very long; tail long and hairy.
The skull is characterized by the large sub-orbital fossaewhich occupy nearly the whole cheek.
The supra-temporal fossae are obliterated, the circumjacent bones uniting over them.
The supra-temporal fossae are always open, and the feet are distinctly webbed.
The supra-temporal fossae are well-marked and open, though not large.
The orbits are proportionally larger, the interorbital space more excavated; and the outer straight margins of the supra-temporal fossae are parallel with the longitudinal axis of the skull.
One kind of worm inhabits the digestive passages, some at the entrance, others at the place of exit; another occupies the fossae of the nose; a third the liver, or the kidneys.
Guyon under the eyelids and in the nasal fossaeof the crab-eating heron of Martinique, is probably a monostomum, and not one of the hirudinidae.
Leuckart was the first to show that the linguatulae, which lived at first encysted in the peritoneum of the rabbit, completed their evolution and became perfect in the nasal fossae of the dog.
We have still to discover the train by which the parasite must travel, in order to 203 arrive again at the nasal fossae which are the first cradle of the family.
We sometimes find in the nasal fossae of the dog and the horse a worm resembling a leech, with a body completely etiolated, which lives there entirely as a parasite, and whose history has only been known 231 for a few years.
Skull large; rostrum long and narrow; nasals long; auditory bullae strongly inflated; braincase not inflated; pterygoid fossae ovoid.
In animals from both localities the pterygoid fossae are more as in D.
Skull medium in size; rostrum narrow and long; pterygoid fossae ovoid; cutting edge of upper incisors narrow; external auditory meatus round and small; jugal straight or nearly so.
The supraspinous and infraspinous fossae are of equal extent (Figs.
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