Subdivision of skeleton that includes all dermal bones in the cranial skeleton[ZFA,modified]. [ ZFA:0000863 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_roof ]
Synonyms: dendrocranium exocranium
Term information
- ZFA:0000863
- XAO:0003169
- AAO:0010154
- Wikipedia:Skull_roof
- TAO:0000863
- VHOG:0001665
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
- only in taxon some Gnathostomata
- part of some dermal skeleton
- tetrapod frontal bone
- early premaxilla
- angular bone
- palatal part of dermatocranium
- nasal skeleton
- dentary
- preopercle
- opercle
- subopercle
- interparietal bone
- premaxilla
- pterotic
- posttemporal
- urohyal
- entopterygoid
- interopercle
- maxilla
- supraethmoid
- kinethmoid bone
- lacrimal bone
- nasal bone
- jugal bone
- squamous part of temporal bone
- coronomeckelian
- infraorbital series
- actinopterygian parietal bone
- actinopterygian frontal bone