Morphological Diversity and Evolution of the Jugal in Dinosaurs.

Volume: 300, Issue: 1, Pages: 30 - 48
Published: Jan 1, 2017
Abstract
In dinosaurs, as in other reptiles, the homologue of the mammalian zygomatic bone is the jugal. The dinosaurian jugal was primitively triradiate, with posterior, dorsal and anterior processes that respectively contacted the quadratojugal, the postorbital, and the maxilla and lacrimal. However, the jugal evolved along different lines in the three major dinosaurian clades. In theropods this cranial element remained relatively conservative in...
Paper Details
Title
Morphological Diversity and Evolution of the Jugal in Dinosaurs.
Published Date
Jan 1, 2017
Volume
300
Issue
1
Pages
30 - 48
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