Skulls
The following illustrate some of the skulls observed in lab.
You should be able to identify the mandible, dentary bone, maxilla, premaxilla, brain case, palate, orbit, nares, foramen magnum, temporal fenestra (if present), and antorbital fenestra (if present). You should also know which of these is anapsid, synapsid, and diapsid.
Tuatara skull:
| Allosaurus skull:
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American alligator skull:
| Side-striped jackal skull:
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Snapping turtle skull:
| Trimerorhachis (amphibian) skull:
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Oedaleops (proto-mammal) skull:
| Thrinaxodon (proto-mammal) skull:
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