Osteology
Right palate bone, lateral view
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Osteology
Right palate bone, lateral view
The maxillary process (12) of this specimen is unusually well developed.
- Sphenopalatine incisure
- Sphenoid process
- Perpendicular part
- Pterygopalatine sulcus
- Posterior nasal spine
- Horizontal plate
- Surface forming part of pterygoid fossa
- Pyramidal process (articular surface for pterygoid process sphenoid bone)
- Area of orbital process forming part of the orbital floor
- Orbital process
- Maxillary surface
- Maxillary process