Osteology

Skull, posterior view

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Osteology

Skull, posterior view

A large sutural bone is present near the junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures.

1. Parietal foramen
2. Intersutural bone
3. Lambdoidal suture
4. Occipital bone (squamous part)
5. Parietomastoid suture
6. Occipitomastoid suture
7. Superior nuchal line
8. Mandibular foramen
9. Sagittal suture
10. Parietal bone
11. Mastoid part of temporal bone
12. Mastoid foramen
13. Mastoid process
14. Mastoid incisura
15. External occipital protuberance (unusually prominent)
16. Angle of mandible