Skeletons
The following illustrate some of the skeletons observed in lab. You should be able to identify the labeled bones.
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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.
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Skin
The following illustrate vertebrate skin and horn observed in lab.
| The horny material that covers this impala horn is composed of hard keratin, derived from the outer layer of skin
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| Shell of a desert tortoise, showing both the bone plates and the keratin scales (along the posterior edge)
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| Reproduction of skin impressions of the hadrosaur dinosaur Edmontosaurus
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Examples of fossil scutes: protective bones from the dermis of the skin.
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Alligator, Pleistocene, FL
| Champsosaurus, late Cretaceous, SD
| Glyptodon, Pleistocene, Brazil
| Ankylosaurus, late Cretaceous, WY
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