Dermal bone that is part of the dorsal or upper border or antero-dorsal border of the orbit. The supraorbital bone may contact the orbital margin of the frontal bone medially, the antorbital antero-ventrally and the dermosphenotic posteriorly. The supraorbital bone does not carry sensory canals. The supraorbital bone is paired. [ TAO:GA_TG ]
Term information
- ZFA:0000691
The supraorbital bone may be present as two or one bone in extant teleosts, although many of the advanced forms lack the bone.
This class was sourced from an external ontology (teleost_anatomy). Its definitions, naming conventions and relationships may need to be checked for compatibility with uberon
Term relations
- skeletal element of eye region
- dermal bone
- facial bone
- part of some infraorbital series
- part of some orbit of skull