At the sides of the parasphenoid are the small =alisphenoids= articulating above with the postfrontals, in front with the frontals, and behind with the pro-otics.
Resting on the ventral surface are a vomer and a very large parasphenoid (fig.
The splenial however never bears teeth and the pterygoid and parasphenoid only rarely, thus differing from the arrangement in the Holostei.
The quadrates are well developed and the squamosals and parasphenoid differ much from those of other Anura.
Part of the floor of the skull is formed by a wide basitemporal (paired in the embryo) which is continued in front as a long slender rostrum; these structures have replaced the parasphenoid of Ichthyopsids.
When membrane bones are developed in connection with the skull, a large parasphenoid occurs.
Paired maxillae, premaxillae, vomers and a parasphenoid occur forming the upper jaw and roof of the mouth, and a series of membrane bones are found investing the mandible and forming the operculum.
The vomerine, palatine and parasphenoid teeth of all forms are numerous and are not arranged in rows.
Remove from it and place in glycerine on a glass slip the fronto-parietal and parasphenoid bones.
In the salamander, behind the teeth-bearing vomers comes a similar toothed parasphenoid bone.
The parasphenoid is the first of the palatal bones to appear.
The parasphenoid is present as a faint median ossification, and the exoccipital shows some ossification.
The first bones to appear are the septomaxillaries, frontoparietals, part of the exoccipital, and the parasphenoid in developmental stage 40.
On the visceral skeleton in Eusthenopteron with a discussion of the parasphenoid and palatoquadrate in fishes.
Of course a parasphenoid may also have been present.
The general architecture of the skull is not unlike that of Osteocephalus; the skulls of both are well roofed, broader than long, and characterized by posterolaterally oriented parasphenoid alae.
A dermal sphenethmoid is present, and the parasphenoid bears odontoids.
Like Osteocephalus, skulls of the members of the genus Phrynohyas are broader than long, have extensive dermal roofing bones, and have posterolaterally oriented parasphenoid alae.
The medial ramus of the pterygoid does not articulate with the otic capsule, and the parasphenoid alae are laterally, rather than posterolaterally, oriented.
The parasphenoid differs from that of Rhabdoderma elegans (Newberry) in being more flared and widened anteriorly and more concave centrally.
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