Lab 2: Skeletal

Question 1

premaxilla

Answer 1

(pre = before) the maxilla is a bone found in some other animals; tooth - bearing

Question 2

vomer

Answer 2

(=plowshare) - this wedge shaped bone is a tooth-bearing bone of the upper jaw

Question 3

palatopterygoid

Answer 3

(ptery = wing) flares out latterly to join the squamosal bone; tooth-bearing bone

Question 4

squamosal

Answer 4

(squamous = scale-like) this bone looks like

Question 5

frontal

Answer 5

forms the upper face

Question 6

parietal

Answer 6

= wall