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Postfrontal bone
Minggu, 2026-02-01 07:06:39

The postfrontal is a paired cranial bone found in many tetrapods. It occupies an area of the skull roof between and behind the orbits (eye sockets), lateral...

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Postorbital bone
Senin, 2025-12-29 01:37:03

located behind the postfrontal and posteriorly to the orbital fenestra. In some vertebrates, the postorbital is fused with the postfrontal to create a postorbitofrontal...

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Crocodile
Selasa, 2026-05-26 01:57:12

reduced. The walls of the braincase are bony but lack supratemporal and postfrontal bones. Their tongues are not free, but held in place by a membrane that...

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Boidae
Minggu, 2026-05-17 21:42:37

Boids are, however, distinguished from the pythons in that none has postfrontal bones or premaxillary teeth, and that they give birth to live young....

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Australothyris
Senin, 2025-03-31 04:17:09

possessed several unique features, including a high tooth number, long postfrontal, small interpterygoid vacuity, and a specialized interaction between...

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Anteosaurus
Kamis, 2026-06-04 06:08:46

prefrontal, and the entire frontal and postfrontal on either side. The thickened and laterally extended postfrontals horn-like bosses reduced the chance...

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Phantomosaurus
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 18:25:57

mostly disarticulated. Bones we have found are: left quadratojugal, postfrontal, supratemporal, postorbital, basioccipital and both tubera basioccipitalia...

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Snake skeleton
Senin, 2026-05-11 04:19:12

the maxilla, and may or may not be in contact with the nasal bone. The postfrontal bone, usually present, borders the orbit behind, rarely also above, and...

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Atractaspis
Minggu, 2026-05-17 22:16:41

anteriorly, with 2 or 3 very small teeth in the middle of the dentary bone. Postfrontal bone absent. Head small, not distinct from neck, covered with large symmetrical...

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Smok wawelski
Kamis, 2026-03-26 16:13:40

link it with primitive archosauromorphs, including the presence of a postfrontal bone on the skull and a closed acetabulum in the hip. Smok was found...

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Myosaurus
Jumat, 2026-03-06 20:01:28

because this species, unlike other dicynodonts, do not possess tusks or postfrontal teeth. The only species identified in the family Myosauridae is the Myosaurus...

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Air mass
Jumat, 2026-05-22 06:09:35

2006-10-22. Jeffrey M. Freedman; David R. Fitzjarrald (August 2001). "Postfrontal Airmass Modification" (PDF). Journal of Hydrometeorology. 2 (4). American...

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Luperosuchus
Jumat, 2026-03-13 09:01:05

situated above the orbit, though it was small and fused to the frontal and postfrontal. The postorbital bone had two distinguishing features: a large rounded...

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Caecilian
Jumat, 2026-06-05 12:11:38

certain skull bones, such as the septomaxillae, prefrontals, an/or a postfrontal-like bone surrounding the orbit (eye socket). The braincase is encased...

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Owenettidae
Kamis, 2026-05-21 11:26:54

contact between the postorbital and parietal bones as a result of enlarged postfrontal bones, and the skull table is formed partly from large supratemporals...

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Westlothiana
Minggu, 2026-04-05 22:00:26

Westlothiana's autapomorphies (unique features) of the skull is the fact that the postfrontal bones, which typically occupy the upper rear corner of the orbits, are...

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Toxicocalamus goodenoughensis
Senin, 2025-12-15 10:44:22

Worm-Eating Snake (Elapidae: Toxicocalamus Boulenger, 1896), with Comments on Postfrontal Bone Variation Based on Micro-computed Tomography". Journal of Herpetology...

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Megalophthalma
Selasa, 2026-05-19 02:01:40

Plagiosternum. Both Megalophthalma and Plagiosternum lack prefrontal and postfrontal bones. In fact, Megalophthalma and Plagiosternum are thought to form...

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Ichthyosauria
Senin, 2026-05-11 04:43:02

the eye socket consists of a bone bar formed by the prefrontal and the postfrontal bones. The postorbital in side view is excluded from the supratemporal...

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Shringasaurus
Senin, 2026-05-18 02:09:37

individuals the bones of roof of the skull (the nasal, prefrontal, frontal and postfrontal) are fused together on each side. The teeth of Shringasaurus are low...

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Puercosuchus
Kamis, 2026-04-23 01:55:38

the roof of the skull are known, including the frontals, prefrontals, postfrontals and parietal bones, although the fragmentary parietal preserves little...

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Microleter
Jumat, 2026-03-06 15:07:09

characterized from its high tooth count, lacrimal/narial contact, short postfrontal, and slit-like temporal emargination edged by the postorbital, jugal...

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Kopidosaurus
Kamis, 2026-05-21 02:59:56

isolated skull, excluding the premaxillae and vomers, and possibly the postfrontals and septomaxillae. Parts of it remain in anatomical articulation, such...

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Plagiosuchus
Rabu, 2026-01-28 23:06:29

fenestra with the loss of several post-orbital bones, including the postfrontal and the postorbital, and the reduction of several others. This fenestra...

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Utatsusaurus
Kamis, 2025-11-27 23:33:41

ichthyopterygians. The postorbital underlaps the elongate posterior process of the postfrontal. This is an evident plesiomorphic condition for ichthyopterygians. For...

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Anshunsaurus
Selasa, 2026-05-19 00:57:00

characterized by a long jugal bone in the skull, fused postorbital and postfrontal bones around the eyes, a maxilla that forms part of the margin of the...

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Intertemporal bone
Rabu, 2025-10-01 06:33:13

typically have it contact the parietal bone along its inner edge, the postfrontal and postorbital bones along its front and/or outer edge, and the supratemporal...

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Mambachiton
Rabu, 2026-06-03 22:39:04

with associated osteoderms, a cervical rib, and a nearly-complete right postfrontal. An additional referred specimen, FMNH PR 5065, was found near the holotype...

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Champsosaurus
Jumat, 2026-02-13 03:59:50

lower temporal fenestra expanded mediolaterally; (4) expansion of the postfrontal separating the postorbitals from the frontals" Champsosaurus gigas Erickson...

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Airistagiz
Senin, 2026-02-23 02:22:14

both parietals and frontals, part of the prefrontals, and the right postfrontal, postorbital, jugal, maxilla, and premaxilla. SMNS 91110 (A and B) is...

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Elginia
Rabu, 2026-04-08 00:28:06

lacrimal). The upper edge of the orbit, formed by the prefrontal and postfrontal bones, is straight in E. mirabilis and smoothly vaulted in E. wuyongae...

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Qianosuchus
Jumat, 2026-05-15 07:05:24

  Maxilla   Nasal   Lacrimal   Prefrontal   Frontal   Jugal   Postorbital   Postfrontal   Pareital   Squamosal   Quadrate   Quadratojugal   Surangular / Articular...

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Kotlassia
Senin, 2025-09-29 03:42:43

on the skull and are surrounded by 5 bones (ithe lacrimal, pre- and postfrontal, postorbital, and jugal, with the jugal being distinctly larger than...

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Frontal bone
Selasa, 2026-02-17 21:48:26

additional bones not found in mammals. These bones, the prefrontals and postfrontals, together form the upper margin of the eye sockets, and lie to either...

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Taytalura
Senin, 2026-04-13 13:36:07

above, the postfrontals are T-shaped, with a sizeable posterior process. In contrast, many other early diapsids have roughly L-shaped postfrontals, where...

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Mdomowabata
Minggu, 2026-01-11 03:43:38

rounded ventral tip, its possession of a hatchet-shaped exposure of the postfrontal bone on the skull's dorsal surface, its wide dorsal exposure of its parietals...

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Callawayia
Rabu, 2026-03-25 12:02:37

prefrontals (another pair of skull roof bones) due to the nasals and postfrontals (two other pairs of skull roof bones) touching each other and blocking...

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Bulbasaurus
Minggu, 2026-05-10 04:10:49

the rims of the eye sockets. There appears to be no separation of the postfrontal bones from the frontals, which is probably an adult characteristic as...

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Pachydectes
Jumat, 2025-06-13 00:51:37

present just above the postorbital bar, where the postorbital contacts the postfrontal. Distinct tear drop shaped boss posterior to the pineal foramen ending...

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Nanomilleretta
Senin, 2026-05-18 03:56:54

to a anterolateral spike of the parietal bone separating part of the postfrontal from the frontal, a feature seen in 'Millerosaurus' pricei (now Milleropsis)...

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Dissorophidae
Kamis, 2026-05-21 06:51:28

orbital margin; (2) basipterygoid region firmly sutured; (3) no prefrontal-postfrontal contact; (4) absence of denticles on the basal plate of the parasphenoid;...

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Tanystropheus
Senin, 2026-05-11 22:05:43

coarse and interdigitating (interlocking). A small triangular bone, the postfrontal, wedges behind the rear outer corner of each frontal. A pair of larger...

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Proterochampsa
Minggu, 2026-01-25 23:14:52

expands transversally at the posterior end, asymmetric feet, and a lack of postfrontal bones in the skull, with the nares located near the midline. Proterochampsa...

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Parvinatator
Kamis, 2025-11-27 23:42:24

reduced supratemporal, a lack of contact between the prefrontal and postfrontal, as well as between the jugal and quadratojugal (which was previously...

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Kronosaurus
Kamis, 2026-05-21 04:18:19

with the margin of the eye sockets due to the connection between the postfrontal and prefrontal bones. The frontal bones also do not come into contact...

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Titanophoneus
Selasa, 2026-06-02 11:02:20

precanine region. It can be distinguished from Anteosaurus by the lack of postfrontal horns and lenticular shape of the angular boss. In 2008 Mikhail Ivakhnenko...

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Grippia
Kamis, 2025-11-27 23:34:32

anterior margin of the external naris is formed by the premaxilla. The postfrontal have a posterior process that overlaps the bone of the large postorbital...

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Ixalerpeton
Jumat, 2024-02-16 17:17:29

back of the skull is large and unreduced; there is an extra bone, the postfrontal, bordering the eye socket; there is no supratemporal fossa, which is...

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Bullacephalus
Selasa, 2026-05-26 02:17:12

pachyostotic; swollen boss present above the postorbital bar formed by the postfrontal and postorbital; deep linear sculpturing of the snout; exclusion of the...

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Asilisaurus
Senin, 2026-01-12 21:45:00

either the postfrontal or postorbital. Neither preservation nor phylogenetic bracketing are stable enough to determine whether a postfrontal bone was present...

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Branchiosauridae
Minggu, 2025-04-27 20:36:22

prefrontal-postfrontal contact, the anteriorly extended jugal and ventral osteoderms. In the post-Branchiosaurus clade the prefrontal-postfrontal contact...

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Romeriscus
Rabu, 2026-04-01 08:33:42

claim impossible, and that due to its poor condition, the frontal and postfrontal portions of the skull cannot be properly identify the species as a limnoscelid...

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Europasaurus
Selasa, 2026-05-19 03:46:05

bone is present in Europasaurus, which evolved as the fusion of the postfrontal and postorbital bone of more basal taxa. Between the anterior and ventrally...

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Avicranium
Senin, 2026-01-12 21:45:38

differs from Megalancosaurus by being completely toothless. The frontal, postfrontal, and postorbital bones (above and behind the eyes) project outwards,...

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Toxicocalamus longhagen
Rabu, 2025-07-23 16:44:52

referring to the location of the specimen, Mount Hagen. Differences in the postfrontal bones distinguish it from T. loriae. The species has been suggested to...

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Lysorophia
Senin, 2026-05-18 07:28:11

anterior edge of the large fenestrae. The intertemporal, supratemporal, postfrontal, and jugal bones of the skull have disappeared. The mandibles are short...

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Metoposaurus
Kamis, 2026-01-29 16:12:19

(2007) shows that the parietal contacts the frontal anteriorly, the postfrontal anterolaterally, the supratemporal laterally, and the postparietal posteriorly...

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Lazarussuchus
Minggu, 2026-03-08 02:20:00

are ornamented with a coarse tuberculous texture, the postorbital and postfrontal bones are fused into a combined postorbitofrontal, the lower temporal...

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Erpetosuchus
Senin, 2025-12-15 10:26:42

maxillae (upper jaw bones) to form a secondary bony palate Absence of a postfrontal bone at the top of the skull Parietal bones fused without a trace of...

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Herpetoskylax
Selasa, 2026-05-26 02:22:50

premaxilla and maxilla is unknown due to insufficient preservation. The postfrontal bone, dorsal to the eyes, is flat, particularly in contrast with this...

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Glossary of dinosaur anatomy
Kamis, 2026-05-28 20:09:36

The pineal foramen (also: frontoparietal foramen; parietal foramen; postfrontal foramen; interfrontal foramen) is an unpaired opening at the midline...

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Mixosauridae
Jumat, 2026-03-06 15:06:16

Ichthyosauria, the upper rims of the orbits is formed by the prefrontals and postfrontals. In mixosaurids, these bones are reinforced and form a crest along the...

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Athabascasaurus
Rabu, 2026-03-25 03:31:59

scleral rings, sets of small bones that supported the eyeballs. Each postfrontal (a paired skull roof bone) of Athabascasaurus bears a triangular projection...

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Seymouria
Jumat, 2026-01-16 03:59:17

more extensively towards the rear of the skull. In S. sanjuanensis, the postfrontal bone contacts the parietal bone by means of an obtuse, wedge-like suture...

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Platyhystrix
Jumat, 2025-10-10 01:54:53

anteriorly beyond margin of orbit; parietals are longer than the frontals; postfrontal length is greater than twice its width and equal to the length of the...

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Infernovenator
Rabu, 2025-05-28 22:20:51

vertebrae; (2) a triangular postfrontal that contacts the tabular; (3) a circumorbital series formed by the prefrontal, the postfrontal, the lacrimal, and the...

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Philydrosaurus
Jumat, 2026-04-17 07:40:47

from the Yixian Formation. Distinct ridges cover the prefrontal and postfrontal bones of the skull, distinguishing Philydrosaurus from related genera...

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Silvestrosaurus
Senin, 2025-11-17 07:35:35

frontal and maxilla, and many parts of the skull, such as the parietal and postfrontal bones, are much broader and flatter than in Lariosaurus. The clavicles...

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Jugal bone
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 10:14:10

two remaining from the ancestral circumorbital series: the prefrontal, postfrontal, postorbital, jugal, and lacrimal bones. This bone is considered key...

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Styracocephalus
Minggu, 2026-01-25 23:18:44

anteriorly between the parietal and the nasal on the skull roof. The postfrontal is large and makes contact with both the frontal and the post-orbital...

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Dravidosaurus
Minggu, 2025-10-05 02:09:01

Stegosaurus. Among the features that distinguished GSI SR Pal 1 were the postfrontal being absent, the beak being slightly different from that of Stegosaurus...

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Poposauroidea
Rabu, 2026-05-27 01:36:10

  Maxilla   Nasal   Lacrimal   Prefrontal   Frontal   Jugal   Postorbital   Postfrontal   Pareital   Squamosal   Quadrate   Quadratojugal   Surangular / Articular...

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Prestosuchus
Selasa, 2026-01-13 01:01:46

Prestosuchus has additional bones forming part of the upper edge; the postfrontal always participates in the orbit, and smaller specimens without a palpebral...

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Coeruleodraco
Kamis, 2026-02-05 04:56:07

and fail to contact the toothed maxillary bones. The postorbital and postfrontal bones (which lie behind the eye) are separate from each other; in many...

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Cochleosaurus
Minggu, 2026-04-12 23:05:57

orbit. These rugosities circle posteriorly on the anterior part of the postfrontal, and appear to be sites for muscle attachment. Analysis of specimen synapomorphies...

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Tersomius
Rabu, 2026-05-27 04:38:39

nearly circular outline of skull with curved maxilla; (2) prefrontal and postfrontal separated; (3) preorbital region equal to skull table in length; (4)...

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Lycosuchus
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 23:53:42

prefrontal, frontal and postfrontal bones. The orbital rims are somewhat rugose in larger specimens, especially so on the postfrontal. While Lycosuchus is...

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Nochnitsa
Selasa, 2026-05-05 18:29:06

substantial contribution to the orbits, unlike in other gorgonopsians. The postfrontal (located above and behind the orbit) was relatively well developed in...

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Leninia
Jumat, 2026-03-06 14:59:06

The postfrontal contacts the nasal over a short distance, and as in Ophthalmosaurus, has no Y-shaped anterior process. Uniquely, the postfrontal does...

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Dibamidae
Rabu, 2026-04-22 02:04:29

between Anelytropsis and Dibamus is the presence of epipterygoid and postfrontal in the Central American genus. The mandible of Dibamidae bears less than...

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Tasmaniosaurus
Minggu, 2026-05-17 22:58:34

Banks considered these to be frontals, parietals, an interparietal and postfrontals, all bones of the rear of the skull. Thulborn instead interpreted them...

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Thalattosauria
Kamis, 2026-02-05 09:30:44

crescent-shaped prefrontal bone in front of the orbit, mirroring the postfrontal bone which is usually fused to the three-pronged postorbital bone behind...

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Eurhinosaurus
Jumat, 2026-03-06 15:33:48

by nasals in the dorsal view. The prefrontal was very small and the postfrontal was large. The postorbital region of the skull (behind the eye sockets)...

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Suevoleviathan
Selasa, 2026-05-05 05:09:47

quadratojugal thus apparently separated from main body of bone; prefrontal and postfrontal subequal in size; external naris large, of triangular shape; posterior...

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Brasinorhynchus
Minggu, 2026-04-05 17:50:11

known rhynchosaurs by possessing a contact between the prefrontal and postfrontal bones that excludes the frontals from the eye socket. A phylogenetic...

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Sophineta
Senin, 2025-03-31 02:30:20

referred to the species, representing frontals, parietals, prefrontal, postfrontals, postorbitals, jugals, squamosals, pterygoids, quadrates, maxillae, premaxilla...

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Huehuecuetzpalli
Jumat, 2025-11-28 11:55:50

characters suggestive of a fairly basal position. However, the shape of the postfrontal and the presence of a parietal foramen suggested an affinity with Iguanomorpha...

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Kadimakara australiensis
Senin, 2025-09-29 05:35:27

genus in the family Prolacertidae. A small, wedge-like bone known as a postfrontal formed the upper rear corner of the orbit (eye hole). The outer edge...

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Acamptonectes
Selasa, 2026-05-19 01:19:45

the hind part of the lacrimal bone (in front of the eye opening), the postfrontal (above and behind the eye opening), the parietal (at the rear of the...

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Sesarmops
Jumat, 2025-09-26 15:23:08

orbital teeth, (2) the frontal margin has a deep median concavity, (3) the postfrontal lobes are prominent, (4) the external orbital tooth is clearly separated...

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Guizhouichthyosaurus
Minggu, 2026-02-15 12:45:55

(eye sockets), where they contact another pair of skull roof bones, the postfrontals. The orbits of Guizhouichthyosaurus are distinctively shaped, having...

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Mesenosaurus
Senin, 2026-01-12 21:57:44

of parietal extends into the supraorbital region of skull table Small postfrontal medially borders narrow, posterior process of the frontal Tabular shrinks...

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Vancleavea
Selasa, 2026-04-28 20:54:59

(crocodylomorphs, dinosaurs, and shuvosaurids), Vancleavea does not possess a postfrontal, a small wedge-like bone which sometimes occupies the rear upper corner...

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Gulosaurus
Senin, 2026-01-19 11:13:17

it remains unknown if this was different. The skull also exhibited postfrontal-frontal contact at the rostral limit of the anterior margin of the supratemporal...

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Llistrofus
Senin, 2026-05-18 22:08:16

the naris; (3) premaxilla contributing to ventral narial margin; (4) postfrontal excluded from the temporal emargination; (5) postorbital contacting the...

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Teyujagua
Jumat, 2026-01-02 06:13:36

almost excluded from the margin of the orbit by the pre- and postfrontals. The postfrontal bones are sculpted, and the jugals are similarly adorned with...

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Bystrowiella
Sabtu, 2025-06-14 19:33:00

facets for connection with the anteriormost osteoderm. Prefrontal and postfrontal parts are not in contact, a typical characteristic of chroniosuchids...

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Aelurosaurus
Minggu, 2026-05-17 19:12:38

orbit and short snout) and Aloposaurus (such as larger preparietal and postfrontal). Aelurosaurus felinus was originally obtained in the Gough, of the Karoo...

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Fodonyx
Senin, 2025-03-31 04:25:53

The frontals are very long, and form a dish shape posteriorly. The postfrontal is triangular and forms part of the back of the orbit. The parietals...

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Besanosaurus
Minggu, 2026-05-17 23:46:56

by a pair of crescentic bones called lacrimals. The prefrontals and postfrontals make up the top of the orbital rim, where they are thickened. The prefrontals...

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Anteosaurinae
Minggu, 2026-05-03 02:48:41

taken to extremes. The dorsal (upper) surface of the nasal, frontal, and postfrontals (around and between/above the eyes) is thickened and rugose in the same...

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Cartorhynchus
Kamis, 2026-03-12 17:43:53

not contribute to the eye socket in Cartorhynchus; the prefrontal and postfrontal bones did not meet above the eye socket; and the location of the large...

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Ecolsonia
Minggu, 2025-09-28 13:11:28

Ecolsonia: (1) tabular and squamosal frame otic fenestra; (2) prefrontal and postfrontal separated (shared with most other trematopids); (3) preorbital region...

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Macroplata
Rabu, 2026-04-15 08:58:10

above the orbits. The prefrontals form part the orbits' upper edge. The postfrontals form the border between the orbits and the temporal fenestrae, and each...

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Heptasuchus
Kamis, 2025-07-17 18:56:35

directed flanges on the parabasisphenoid and a distinct, orbit-overhanging postfrontal. Heptasuchus was originally assigned to Rauisuchidae, based on similarities...

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Mesosuchus
Senin, 2026-01-12 21:57:46

rim of the upper temporal fenestra and contacts the parietal below the postfrontal. Information of the lower jaw had to be put together from the pieces...

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Skull roof
Kamis, 2026-01-08 09:28:19

following: Nasals (midline) Lacrimals Prefrontals Frontals (midline) Postfrontals Postorbitals Parietals (midline) Intertemporals Supratemporals Postparietals...

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Abrahamskraal Formation
Jumat, 2026-05-22 02:33:18

Tapinocephalus A-Z. A skull cap consists of the frontals, parietals, postfrontals, and one pre-frontal. A tapinocephalian. Keratocephalus K. moloch Prince...

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Pampaphoneus
Minggu, 2026-05-03 02:48:53

gradual than in Syodon and excavates the posterior of the maxilla and the postfrontal and not just the lacrimal as it does in Syodon. A peculiarity of the...

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Bathyotica
Minggu, 2025-03-30 03:00:46

the skull behind the eye sockets. Members of Bathyotica also lack a postfrontal bone. In 2012, the genus Parringtonia was redescribed and found to be...

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Palatodonta
Minggu, 2026-01-25 23:01:53

curved bones separate the orbit from the upper temporal fenestra: the postfrontal and postorbital. The postorbital sends back a rounded plate; this plate...

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Nanobamus
Senin, 2025-03-31 03:42:23

shape of a sideways '8'; (2) narrow interorbital distance; (3) large postfrontal; (4) frontal twice as wide anteriorly as it is posteriorly; (5) large...

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Acherontiscus
Senin, 2026-01-12 07:19:16

Carroll (1969), Carroll & Kuhn (1998), and Ruta et al. (2003) identified a postfrontal bone in front of the postorbital, but CT data from Clack et al. (2019)...

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Lemurosaurus
Jumat, 2026-03-06 15:17:38

tall, stretching up on either side toward the pineal foramen. On the postfrontal there is a pachyostosed supraorbital boss, which has a stronger arch...

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Chaohusaurus
Senin, 2026-04-20 02:16:52

have well-developed transversal processes. The prefrontal touches the postfrontal, excluding the frontal from the rim of the eye-socket, a derived trait...

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Colobops
Selasa, 2025-09-30 05:35:01

upper rear branch of a prefrontal and the upper forward branch of a postfrontal (bone behind the eye). This means that the frontals (bones of the skull...

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Aegirosaurus
Jumat, 2026-03-06 15:23:40

viewed from the side. However, two pairs of bones of the skull roof, the postfrontals and supratemporals, block them from reaching the temporal fenestrae (openings...

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Gordodon
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 07:08:03

overhanging 'brow' of bone above them formed by the prefrontal, frontal and postfrontal bones. The single opening behind the eyes (the temporal fenestra, an...

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Jesairosaurus
Selasa, 2025-09-30 04:55:56

skull. The front edge of each postorbital contacts a moderately large postfrontal bone, which forms part of both the rear edge of the orbit and the front...

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Slaugenhopia
Senin, 2026-05-18 22:10:44

Slaugenhopia. Both dvinosaurs have an enlarged postorbital bone and a small postfrontal bone near the eye sockets. They also have similar vertebrae, with ring-like...

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Huskerpeton
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 20:47:22

was categorized as Tuditanomorpha based on three characteristics: the postfrontal and postorbital are similar sizes and they both contact the large tabular...

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Gracilisuchus
Jumat, 2026-03-20 22:17:52

and Yonghesuchus where they are the other way around. Furthermore, a postfrontal bone is present, with an outer process that is uniquely long and extends...

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Magnuviator
Senin, 2025-09-29 03:43:30

of the skull. Although it is poorly preserved, the half-moon-shaped postfrontal bone would have extended from a process from the postorbital up to the...

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Scutarx
Sabtu, 2025-10-04 20:22:45

anterior part connects posteriorly to the parietal and laterally to the postfrontal. The frontal creates the dorsal edge of the orbit just in front of the...

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Tetragonias
Rabu, 2025-11-12 12:22:19

fenestrae than Lystrosaurus murrayi, as well as a shallower skull, no postfrontals,  a parietal crest, and differences in size of some parts of the palate...

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Eichstaettisaurus
Kamis, 2026-01-22 19:21:21

bone, usually a part of the eye socket. Also in the eye socket, the postfrontal and postorbital bones were separate unlike Ardeosaurus, and the rearward...

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Oardasaurus
Minggu, 2026-05-31 07:08:46

temporal fenestrae are not obscured by either the postorbital bones or the postfrontal bones. A characteristic of the family Barbatteiidae, which Oardasaurus...

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Repelinosaurus
Rabu, 2025-10-29 20:58:52

autapomorphies (derived traits) with other Kannemeyeriiformes: the absence of a postfrontal bone, the ventral keels on the anterior pterygoid rami do not converge...

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Bahndwivici
Rabu, 2025-12-31 03:29:10

snout and an additional tooth in the upper jaw, and its postorbital and postfrontal bones were not fused. Bahndwivici is one of several lizards known from...

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Thliptosaurus
Kamis, 2025-07-03 00:27:15

in the juveniles of larger dicynodont species. There is no sign of a postfrontal bone, which is interpreted as fusing with the postorbital bone during...

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Criocephalosaurus
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 22:38:33

The specimen found was a skull cap featuring the frontals, parietals, postfrontals, and one pre frontal. Criocephalus gunyankaensis is the second named...

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Askeptosaurus
Minggu, 2025-08-10 11:11:29

bones, the large and multi-pronged postorbital and the much smaller postfrontal. Once again, Askeptosaurus retains the plesiomorphic condition, since...

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Aerosaurus
Senin, 2026-05-18 22:19:30

with the posterior end not extending into the margins of the orbit. The Postfrontal is small due to the size of the frontal. The squamosal is long and narrow...

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Odenwaldia
Minggu, 2026-05-17 23:47:01

laterally extensive postorbital and a contact between the prefrontal and the postfrontal. Morales and Kamphausen originally proposed that Odenwaldia represented...

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Leptopleuron
Selasa, 2026-05-26 02:23:05

orbitonasal canal after analysis. The parietal occupies the space for the postfrontal as this feature is absent in Leptopleuron. The pineal foramen is large...

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Asperoris
Rabu, 2026-03-11 11:08:55

maxilla bones of the upper jaw, the right nasal, prefrontal, frontal, postfrontal, and parietal bones of the top of the skull, and part of the right postorbital...

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Dianopachysaurus
Selasa, 2026-05-19 00:53:48

extending backwards into the parietal almost up to the pineal foramen. The postfrontals are triradiate and come between the orbits and the upper temporal fenestrae...

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Thaisaurus
Minggu, 2026-05-17 23:53:51

elongated ridge is present along the rear edges of the postorbitals. The postfrontals (a pair of skull roof bones) do not form any part of the borders of the...

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Scylacops
Minggu, 2025-03-02 16:06:15

which does not reach the orbital margins, behind the frontal is a large postfrontal bounded by the prefrontal, the frontal, the parietal, and the postorbital...

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Doswellia
Kamis, 2026-04-23 20:55:49

Doswellia lacks several bones found in other archosauriforms, including the postfrontals, tabulars, and postparietals. The body of Doswellia is also distinctive...

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Rautiania
Senin, 2026-04-06 06:19:48

large, widely spaced spines on its parietal. The upper portion of the postfrontal bone is wider in Rautiania than in other weigeltisaurids. Bulanov & Sennikov...

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Stanocephalosaurus
Senin, 2026-06-01 22:52:24

external nostrils with lateral borders, small orbits, posteriorly wide postfrontals, elongate parietals, concave posterior margin of the skull table, ovoid...

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Wimanius
Minggu, 2026-05-17 23:53:55

roof. A poorly preserved, curved bone was tentatively identified as a postfrontal by Maisch and Matzke in 1998, but they backtracked on this identification...

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Hauffiopteryx
Selasa, 2025-07-01 16:12:03

bones). Externally, the prefrontals have greater surface area than the postfrontals, especially so in H. altera. The frontals (a pair of skull roof bones)...

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Taoheodon
Jumat, 2025-10-03 19:06:38

fairly straight suture between the nasals and frontals, lacking the postfrontal bones, fairly flat postorbitals in the temporal area, and a large fossa...

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Kourerpeton
Senin, 2026-05-18 22:08:52

Slaugenhopia, Kourerpeton possesses enlarged postorbitals and reduced postfrontals, bones that form the portion of the skull roof above the eye sockets...

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