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Temporal fenestra

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85: 31: 121: 285:– Two openings. A monophyletic group including all modern reptiles and birds. Turtles, though not diapsids in a purely anatomical sense, qualify as members of the clade Diapsida due to their likely diapsid ancestry. Some diapsids, particularly modern lizards, have an infratemporal fenestra which is open from below due to a lack of contact between the jugal and 113:, is positioned above the other fenestra and is exposed primarily in dorsal (top) view. In some reptiles, particularly dinosaurs, the parts of the skull roof lying between the supratemporal fenestrae are thinned out by excavations from the adjacent fenestrae. These extended margins of thinned bone are called 185:
Physiological speculation associates temporal fenestrae with a rise in metabolic rates and an increase in jaw musculature. The earlier amniotes of the Carboniferous did not have temporal fenestrae, but two more advanced lines did: the
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There are four types of amniote skull, classified by the number and location of their temporal fenestrae. Though historically important for understanding amniote evolution, some of these configurations have little relevance to modern
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group, as reptiles with euryapsid skulls lack a shared common ancestor. Euryapsids evolved from a diapsid configuration, losing their lower temporal fenestra. Examples of euryapsid reptiles include
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to the infratemporal fenestra, as displayed most clearly by early synapsids. In later synapsids, the
84: 69:, for example, is defined by the presence of two temporal fenestrae on each side of the skull. The 385: 286: 207: 152: 159:, the orbit fused with the fenestral opening after the latter had started expanding within the 415: 377: 369: 330: 349: 128:. Note the presence of only one infratemporal fenestra above the zygomatic arch (cheek bone). 34:
Skull of an idealised diapsid, with upper and lower temporal fenestrae behind the eye socket
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have an anapsid skull, but this was likely acquired secondarily from a diapsid ancestor.
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Temporal fenestrae in relation to the other skull openings in the
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of reptiles, including birds). The major reptile group
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Opening in the skull behind the orbit in some animals
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Index

Infratemporal fenestra

temporal
skull
amniotes
orbit
dinosaurs
total group
Diapsida

dinosaur
Massospondylus
diapsid

synapsid
Synapsids
mammals
zygomatic arch
jugal
squamosal
homologous
cynodonts
therapsids
temporal fossa
postorbital bar
haplorhines
postorbital septum
synapsids
diapsids
phylogenetic

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