A skeletal joint that connects quadrate and articular bones. [ http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evograms_05 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]
Term information
- ZFA:0005484
- TAO:0001802
over time, the synapsids' quadrate-articular jaw joint (which the rest of the tetrapods possess) was replaced by a dentary-squamosal joint (which all living mammals possess), while the quadrate and articular migrated, shrank, and became part of the complex of middle ear bones.
see comments for UBERON:0004744 articular/anguloarticular.
Joint that articulates quadrate and anguloarticular bones. Quadrate-articular joint is paired.[TAO]
Term relations
- skeletal joint and connects some articular/anguloarticular and connects some quadrate bone