BIO 113 — Dinosaurs
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Lab 8
The Vertebrate Skull

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Skeleton & Skin Identification Review

Skulls


The following illustrate some of the skulls observed in lab.
You should be able to identify the mandible, dentary bone, maxilla, premaxilla, brain case, palate, orbit, nares, foramen magnum, temporal fenestra (if present), and antorbital fenestra (if present). You should also know which of these is anapsid, synapsid, and diapsid.

Tuatara skull:
tuatara skull
Allosaurus skull:
allosaurus skull

American alligator skull:
gator skull
Side-striped jackal skull:
jackal skull

Snapping turtle skull:
turtle skull
Trimerorhachis (amphibian) skull:
anapsid skull

Oedaleops (proto-mammal) skull:
synapsid skull
Thrinaxodon (proto-mammal) skull:
synapsid skull

Also see the Dinosaur Skulls page

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