The bone of the cranium that lies above and anterior to the occipital bone in some mammals. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interparietal_bone MP:0000077 ]
Synonyms: inter-parietal bone interparietal
Term information
- Wikipedia:Interparietal_bone
- FMA:75748
- VHOG:0001327
- EMAPA:19017
- MA:0001467
- EHDAA:9530
- 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
- anterior to some occipital bone
- part of some vault of skull
- only in taxon some Mammalia
- part of some dermatocranium
- contributes to morphology of some vault of skull