1. Craniometry is the measurement of the cranium or skull and is a large subset within Cephalometry

2. The much-reported derivation of these breeds from Sudanese sheep is a hypothesis published in 1886 in the Traité de zootechnie of André Sanson, and is based on craniometry; it has no foundation in science.

3. The study of “craniometry” in the early 19th century, correlating specific areas of the brain with external skull landmarks, resulted in models such as Wilson's cyrtometer, Kroenlein and Kohler's Cephalometers, Broca's craniograph, and Kocher's craniometer ()