Roof of the buccal cavity, formed from the fusion of vomer, pterygoid, parasphenoid, palatine, ectopterygoid. [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0073040584 ]
Term information
- TAO:0002093
- ZFA:0005509
- Wikipedia:Primitive_palate
- AAO:0010535
Anatomical cluster that is the upper roof of the mouth that is underlain by bones such as the parasphenoid, vomer, metapterygoid, orbitosphenoid.[TAO]
Roof of the mouth lined with ciliated epithelium.[AAO]
Early tetrapod possessed a primary palate that included the vomer, pterygoid, parasphenoid, palatine and ectopterygoid bones. Therapsid evolved a partial secondary palate formed by the medial extension of the premaxilla and maxilla. Mammals have a secondary palate that, in addition to extensions of the premaxilla and maxilla, includes part of the palatine bone[VHOG]
Term relations
- roof of mouth
- derived from ancestral fusion of some palatine bone
- part of some palatal part of dermatocranium
- derived from ancestral fusion of some pterygoid bone
- derived from ancestral fusion of some parasphenoid
- derived from ancestral fusion of some ectopterygoid bone
- derived from ancestral fusion of some vomer