The supratemporal bone is a paired cranial bone present in many tetrapods and tetrapodomorph fish. It is part of the temporal region (the portion of the...

the possibility of it being a tabular. He argued that the bone was the supratemporal bone, which had enlarged and shifted towards the rear tip of the...

synapsids by having a long, narrow supratemporal bone (instead of one that is as wide as it is long) and a frontal bone with a wider connection to the upper...

either the postfrontal and supratemporal lengthen to contact each other (or the tabular bone in case the supratemporal is also lost), or the parietal...

to the cranium through the supratemporal (often regarded as the squamosal). In rare cases, (Polemon) the transverse bone is forked and articulates with...

currently recognized. Like the pythons, boas have elongated supratemporal bones. The quadrate bones are also elongated, but not as much, while both are capable...

consists of a bone bar formed by the prefrontal and the postfrontal bones. The postorbital in side view is excluded from the supratemporal fenestra. The...

supratemporal fenestrae are thinned out by excavations from the adjacent fenestrae. These extended margins of thinned bone are called supratemporal fossae...

premaxilla, orbitosphenoid, parietal, symplectic, posttemporal, and supratemporal bones, the gill rakers, and the branchiostegal rays. The loss of these...

by the skull having greatly reduced supraoccipital, tabular, and supratemporal bones that are no longer in contact with the postorbital. Aside from Diapsida...

lateral edge of each postparietal often contacts the tabular and supratemporal bones. In fish, the postparietals are elongated, typically the largest...

features not found in any other turtle. For instance, the lacrimal bone, supratemporal bone, and lacrimal duct are notable structures that are kept. Furthermore...

diapsid condition. In the adult, the upper fenestra is covered by the supratemporal bone. Eunotosaurus was named in 1892 for a specimen (now NHMUK PV R 1968...

"primitive" characteristics such as robust, low-slung bodies and large supratemporal bones at the back of the skull. While all but the earliest eureptiles were...

behind at the level of the rear supratemporal fenestra, a typical centrosaurine trait. The squamosal and the jugal bone, by touching each other, excluded...

pterygoid. On the palatine bone the posteromedial process is enlarged and extends towards the side. The supratemporal bone is almost symmetrical and the...

postfrontal is uniquely elongated, as its rear branch contacts the boxy supratemporal bone and separates the postorbital from the parietal. The pineal foramen...

and tabular bones, while the squamosal bone is small, the supratemporal bone is extensive, and the quadrate bone is large. When seen from above, the rear...

parietal eye) was absent. The supratemporal bone had a forwards-pointing process that lacked a covering of cosmine. The squamosal bone was nearly equal in height...

large supratemporal bone contacting the postorbital anteriorly, and a line of weakness between the postorbital, supratemporal, and squamosal bones which...

supratemporal fenestra still possessed a depressed basin of bone known as a supratemporal fossa. Ezcurra (2016) argued that presence of supratemporal...

the tabular, supratemporal (and sometimes an adjacent intertemporal), and squamosal. The intertemporal is lost (or fused into other bones) in a variety...

which was followed by a supratemporal bone. Above those bones were a pair of parietals which overlooked much longer bones that reached the rear face...

bone pair) may be tabulars, though they may instead be osteoderms incorporated into the skull roof. They smoothly connect outwards to supratemporal bones...

formed by the curved supratemporal bone rather than the squamosal, similar to baphetids but unlike Balanerpeton. Each supratemporal contacts a postparietal...

a small area of bone is present between the supratemporal fenestrae. This area of bone, formed by the fusion of the two parietal bones, has a thin sagittal...

notch in the back of the skull is shallow and is not touched by the supratemporal bone as is otherwise the case in temnospondyls. Sensory sulci, grooves...

basal among captorhinids, as it only has one row of teeth, a slender supratemporal bone, and a comparatively large pineal foramen (relative to skull size)...

related to them. It was originally mistaken for the quadrate bone. The postfrontal and supratemporal together form the border of the upper temporal fenestra...

possesses a small and narrow supratemporal fenestra, which separates the wide parietal bone from the elongated supratemporal bone. The front of the lower jaw...