The cranium remains chiefly cartilaginous, the palato-pterygo-quadrate bar is fused with the cranium, and the suspensorium is autostylic.
There were certainly five, perhaps seven gill slits, and the suspensorium is apparently hyostylic.
In most cases the suspensorium is hyostylic, the jaws being attached to the cranium by means of the hyomandibular, and the palato-pterygo quadrate bar not being fused to the cranium.
The suspensorium in Megalobatrachus and Cryptobranchus projects at right angles to the cranium; in Siredon it projects somewhat downwards and forwards as in the Salamandrina.
The cartilaginous cranium is always covered with external membrane bone to a greater or less extent, and the suspensorium is markedly hyostylic.
The suspensorium is hyostylic and the jaws have much the same arrangement as in the Holostei.
The suspensorium resembles that of Teleosteans, consisting of a proximal ossification, the hyomandibular, which is movably articulated to the skull and a distal ossification, the symplectic.
The suspensorium in bony Ganoids, as in the Chondrostei, is hyostylic, and there are two ossifications in the hyomandibular cartilage, viz.
The suspensorium is, as in Dipnoi and Holocephali, autostylic.
In the extinct family of Lepidotidæ the teeth are conical or chisel-shaped, while blunt or molar teeth are on the inside of the mouth, which is small, and the suspensorium of the mandible is vertical or inclined forward.
To the skull in the shark is attached a suspensorium of one or two pieces supporting the mandible and the hyoid structures.
In the sharks and in all higher fishes the mandible is joined to the skull by a suspensorium of bones or cartilages (quadrate, symplectic, and hyomandibular bones in the Teleost fishes).
The palate with thesuspensorium is coalesced with the skull, and the teeth are grown together into bony plates.
The fishes of this class are characterized by the presence of a suspensorium to the mandible, by the existence of membrane-bones (opercles, suborbitals, etc.
The slender bone which thus keys together the upper and lower elements, hyomandibular and quadrate, forming the suspensorium of the lower jaw, is known as symplectic (18).
Anything which suspends or holds up a part: especially, the mandibular suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilages representing them) which connects the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals.
Plaiting or joining together; -- said of a bone next above the quadrate in the mandibular suspensorium of many fishes, which unites together the other bones of the suspensorium.
Defn: Plaiting or joining together; -- said of a bone next above the quadrate in the mandibular suspensorium of many fishes, which unites together the other bones of the suspensorium.
We believe it--we are sorry he has fallen into our hands, but he is our enemy.
The North Beach has now more attractions and amusements than any other point in the State, and when the arrangements are completed with a stud of riding and driving horses, it may well be styled the Newport of the South.
The quadrate cartilage of the frog is superseded by the squamosal as the suspensorium of the lower jaw.
Hence these small bones seem to be the relics of the discarded jawsuspensorium of the frog utilized in a new function.
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