The bone of the cranium that lies above and anterior to the occipital bone in some mammals. [ MP:0000077 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interparietal_bone ]
Synonyms: inter-parietal bone interparietal
Term information
- MA:0001467
- FMA:75748
- EHDAA:9530
- EMAPA:19017
- Wikipedia:Interparietal_bone
- SCTID:369438005
pheno_slim
consider splitting classes for inter-parietal and post-parietal. postparietals paired in reptiles, fused in mammals.
post-parietal bone
postparietal
inca bone
ossicle of Goethe
postparietal bone
os interparietale
The homologization of cranial bones of actinopterygians with those of sarcopterygians based on the bone names established in human anatomy is favored in order to permit the building of phylogenetic relationship schemes beyond the taxonomic boundaries of osteichthyans (including tetrapods). (...) In actinopterygians, the terms parietal and postparietal bones have to replace the commonly used terms 'frontal' and 'parietal' bones for the two paired bones on the skull roof.[well established][VHOG]
Term relations
- neurocranium bone
- dermal bone
- develops from some interparietal bone primordium
- part of some vault of skull
- anterior to some occipital bone
- part of some neurocranium
- part of some dermatocranium
- in taxon some Mammalia
- contributes to morphology of some vault of skull