squamosal in English

noun
1
the squamous portion of the temporal bone, especially when this forms a separate bone that, in mammals, articulates with the lower jaw.
It may also articulate with various dermal bones of the roof or sides of the skull for support, normally the squamosal and parietal.

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1. The parietal bones fit between the frontal, the supraoccipital, the squamosal, and the lateral margin of the Alisphenoid

2. The posterior part of each Alisphenoid forms a triangular process which fits into the angle between the squamosal and the petrosal

3. Most paleontologists, however, still think that animals with the dentary-squamosal jaw joint and the sort of molars characteristic of modern mammals should formally be members of Mammalia.

4. Mesozoic synapsids that had evolved to the point of having a jaw joint composed of the dentary and squamosal bones are preserved in few good fossils, mainly because they were mostly smaller than rats: They were largely restricted to environments that are less likely to provide good fossils.

5. They included twelve genera and proposed five synapomorphies for the tribe: presence of a pair of mammae on the chest; a long palate marked by posterolateral palatal pits, perforations near the third molar; absence of an alisphenoid strut, which in some sigmodontines separates two foramina (openings) in the skull; absence of a suspensory process of the squamosal bone attached to the roof of the tympanic cavity, the tegmen tympani; and absence of a gall bladder.