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Description: Figure 7. Skull roof and other bones of type specimen (UTGD 54655) of Tasmaniosaurus triassicus. A, skull roof bones in ventral view and close-up views of the ventral surfaces of the anterior margins of the B, left and C, right frontals. Abbreviations: ?ep, possible epipterygoid; ?po, probable postorbital; ?so, possible supraoccipital; dr, dorsal rib; f-n, fronto-nasal suture; chi, cerebral hemisphere impression; ip, interparietal; lff, laterosphenoid facet; li, lateral impression; mbsf, medial border of the supratemporal fenestra; obi, olfactory bulb impression; od, orbital depression; oti, olfactory tract impression; plp, posterolateral process of the parietal; pof, postfrontal; r, ridge. Scale bars equal 1 cm (A) and 1 mm (B, C).
Title: Tasmaniosaurus skull roof
Credit: The Osteology of the Basal Archosauromorph Tasmaniosaurus triassicus from the Lower Triassic of Tasmania, Australia. PLoS ONE 9(1): e86864. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0086864
Author: Martin D. Ezcurra (2014)
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