The masseteric fossa receives the insertion of the rostral or superficial division of the masseter muscle.
Simpson's material included a rostral fragment with an incisor, premolar, and first molar.
Zygogeomys persimilis is represented by a rostral fragment bearing all the cheek teeth on the left side and the upper incisors.
The absence of the rostral knob would preclude its being a king vulture.
The vertical rostral keel is prominent in all freshly preserved specimens; in some older specimens it is indistinct.
Because of its small nuptial spines, small triangular vomers, coloration, and absence of a rostral keel, Ptychohyla euthysanota, more than any of the other species in the P.
Rostral keel present; snout in lateral profile rounded above; eyelid nearly as wide as interorbital region; flanks white with brown spots; belly spotted; nuptial spines pointed and moderate in size.
Head rather shelving, shielded with one transverse frontal and two large vertebral plates, the hinder largest; the rostral plates large, with two unequal superciliary plates.
Top of the head and nape black, with a yellow spot on the rostral scale on each side just before the eyes.
The rostral part of the skull is smaller than in average-sized males of corresponding age.
The one measurement of interorbital breadth in initis is greater in relation to the basilar length than in kadiacensis but the rostral region, and all that part of the skull anterior to the braincase, is relatively smaller in initis.
Rostral portion of skull less attenuate than in Tupaia tana.
Thomas by their well developed ears, and shorter broader rostral portion of skull.
Ratio of rostral depth to distance between middle of interparietal and lower rim of audital bulla, 50.
Upon a rostral column decorated with the hulks of three seventy-four gun ships, Genius has hung three medallions, containing the portraits of the Captains.
A rostral pillar is a column ornamented with such beaks or prows, which were, in the Roman language, called rostra.
They took the prows of the ships which they captured and conveyed them to Rome, and built what is called a rostral pillar of them.
In front, a small "rostral plate" is joined to the carapace by a movable hinge, and partly covers the stalked eyes.
In this larva the carapace has two long spines behind, and a rostral spine which is several times as long as the body of the animal.
The form of the beak and of the rostral portion of the premaxillae is that of M.
Rostral portion of premaxillae narrow and widely divergent toward base of rostrum, leaving mesirostral entirely exposed.
In the Nantucket skull the rostral portion of the premaxillae is high and at the distal end vertical.
The rostral portion of the maxillae is broad at the base but tapers more rapidly than in bidens.
The most salient of these is the depth of the beak as a whole and the depth and shape of the rostral portion of the premaxillae.
The rostral portion of the premaxillae is oblique proximally and vertical distally.
Vomer nearly all anchylosed to rostral portion of premaxillae; it presents a slight median elevation, but there is no mesirostral ossification.
In three of the species the two segments, named the occludent and basal, appear like separate valves, but these, by dissection, can be most distinctly seen to be united at the rostral angle.
Rostral Latera flat, four-sided, with the basal margin the longest, and the baso-carinal angle produced.
The umbones of the rostral latera must have been close together, over the unknown rostrum.
Peduncle, only small fragments are preserved; the calcified scales are small, closely imbricated, several of them together only equalling in length the basal margin of the rostral latera.
The exact position of the rostral latus differed on the two sides of the specimen examined; apparently its normal position is at the baso-lateral angle of the scuta.
Stoddartii, that it attracted my attention, by the peculiar form of this rostral appendage.
It bears no resemblance to the depressed rostral hump of Lyriocephalus, and the differences of the new species from the latter lizard may be easily seen from the annexed drawing and the notes given below.
On the internal surface, near to the rostral angle, a rather large purple spot of corium adhered to the valve.
Small crests exist for the attachment of the rostraland lateral depressor muscles, in most of the species, excepting T.
Orifice oval, rather small in proportion to the size of shell, this being chiefly due to the infolding of the upper part of the rostral compartment.
At the rostral end there is, also, a small cavity formed by the overfolding of the occludent margin (rarely furnished with crests) for the attachment of the rostral depressor muscle.
There is no little tooth near the rostral angle, and the basi-scutal corner is not hollowed out.
The orifice differs in form from diamond-shape to trigonal; the carinal end, owing to the shape of the carina, being always sharper or narrower than the rostral end.
These two chains of glands are often placed very irregularly, but they tend to form, as in Coronula, a large angle, open towards the rostral end of the shell.
The lateral depressores of the scuta consist each of about three fasciae, and they terminate downwards like the rostral muscles.
In one specimen there was a deep little pit at the rostralend for the rostral depressor muscle.
The scutum is a little larger than the tergum, and rather less symmetrical, the rostral corner of the valve being a little produced.
The adductor ridge is moderately developed, and runs nearly parallel to the occludent margin; there are no crests for the rostral and lateral depressor muscles.
In the Acontiadae the nostrils are placed in the enlarged rostral plate, with a longitudinal slit behind.
Other genera have a pyramidal head, with the rostral plate erect, and rounded in front.
The genus Nessia has four rudimentary limbs, and therostral shield is large, sub-conical, and depressed.
Some have a wedge-shaped head, with prominent rostral plate.
Preorbitals separated by rostral and pineal elements, the latter passing backward between the anterior ends of the centrals.
Rostral a little broader than deep, just visible from above.
Rostral a little broader than deep, the portion visible from above measuring one-fourth to two-fifths its distance from the frontal.
Rostral as deep as broad, a little broader than deep, or slightly deeper than broad, reaching or nearly reaching the upper surface of the snout, and in contact with two or three apical shields.
The rostral and the labial shields are uniform yellowish-white, rarely with a few small, blackish spots or with brown borders.
Rostral as deep as broad or slightly deeper than broad, visible from above, in contact with one apical shield (rarely with two).
Rostral deeper than broad, forming an acute angle above, wedged in between the internasals, the portion visible from above nearly as long as its distance from the frontal.
The dorsal crest is continued round both extremities, becoming expanded to form the rostral fin in front and the caudal fin behind.
In this connexion it may also be mentioned that in all cases the right half of the oral hood is directly continuous with the rostral fin (fig.
According to Livy, and some other authors, the rostral crown had never been given in any preceding wars, nor was it afterwards bestowed; but Pliny is of a different opinion, he says that it was given to M.
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