Subdivision of skeleton that includes all dermal bones in the cranial skeleton[ZFA,modified]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_roof ZFA:0000863 ]
Synonyms: dendrocranium exocranium
Term information
- AAO:0010154
- TAO:0000863
- ZFA:0000863
- Wikipedia:Skull_roof
- VHOG:0001665
- XAO:0003169
wikipedia treats skull roof and dermatocranium as synonymous, but some sources treat the roof as being part of the dermatocranium - see UBERONREF:0000007
Anatomical cluster that is part of the cranium and composed of dermally derived bones.[TAO]
Anatomical cluster that is part of the cranium which consists of dermally derived bones.[AAO]
dermal part of skull
dermal skull bones
roofing bones of the skull
skull exoskeleton
dermal bone cranium
Term relations
- primary subdivision of cranial skeletal system
- in taxon some Vertebrata
- in taxon some (not Chondrichthyes)
- part of some dermal skeleton
- part of some cranial skeletal system
- parietal-supraoccipital
- rostral plate
- accessory vomerine tooth plate
- angular/surangular bone
- otic notch
- median premaxilla
- infraorbital series
- intertemporal bone
- tabular bone
- supratemporal bone
- early premaxilla
- prearticular bone
- frontoparietal bone
- surangular bone
- splenial bone
- quadratojugal bone
- submandibular bone
- coronoid bone
- sagittal crest of skull
- sagittal keel
- angular bone
- coronomeckelian
- squamous part of temporal bone
- jugal bone
- nasal bone
- lacrimal bone
- postfrontal bone
- postorbital bone
- kinethmoid bone
- supraethmoid
- maxilla
- interopercle
- supraorbital bone
- entopterygoid
- infraorbital
- urohyal
- palatal part of dermatocranium
- posttemporal
- tetrapod frontal bone
- preopercle
- opercle
- subopercle
- postorbital bar
- antorbital
- supramaxilla
- suprapreopercle
- branchiostegal ray series
- extratemporal bone
- canal plate
- pterotic-posttemporal-supracleithrum
- hypomaxilla
- gular plate
- prefrontal bone
- auditory bulla
- nasal skeleton
- actinopterygian parietal bone
- actinopterygian frontal bone
- interparietal bone
- premaxilla
- dentary
- pterotic