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squamous part of temporal bone

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A bone which is fused with the temporal bone in many mammals and forms part of the cheek region articulating with quadrate and pterygoid in other vertebrates. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squama_temporalis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squamosal_bone MP:0004423 https://github.com/obophenotype/uberon/issues/122 ]

Synonyms: temporal bone squamous part, squamosal bone, os squamosum, squamosal, pars squamosa ossis temporalis, pars squamosa (os temporale), squamous bone, squamosum, squama temporalis

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UBPROP 0000001

Paired, intramembranous bones that lie at the posterolateral margins of the skull. Lateral and dorsal to the quadrate.[AAO], The squamosal bone is part of the dermatocranium in early tetrapods and becomes part of the mammalian occipital and temporal bones. [Bemis_WE, Functional_Anatomy_of_the_Vertebrates:_An_Evolutionary_Perspective, Grande_L, Third_Edition_(2001)_Orlando_Fla.:_Harcourt_College_Publishers, Walker_WF, p.246, see_Liem_KF][VHOG]

UBPROP 0000008

The squamosal bone, which is homologous with the squama, and forms the side of the cranium in many bony fish and tetrapods. Primitively, it is a flattened plate-like bone, but in many animals it is narrower in form, for example, where it forms the boundary between the two temporal fenestrae of diapsid reptiles

contributor

https://github.com/cmungall, https://github.com/mellybelly

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Skull_synapsida_1.png, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Gray144.png

editor note

consider separate class for squamosal OR making squamosal the primary label

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UBERON:0001695

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Squamous part of temporal bone, squamous part of temporal bone