Palatoquadrate

In some fishes, the palatoquadrate is the dorsal component of the mandibular arch, the ventral one being Meckel's cartilage. The palatoquadrate forms from splanchnocranium in various chordates including placoderms and acanthodians.[1]

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  • Hyomandibula
  • Fish anatomy
  • Helicoprion

References

  1. ^ Kardong, Kenneth (2015). Vertebrates: Comparative Anatomy, Function, Evolution -Seventh edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Education. pp. 244–248, 256. ISBN 978-0-07-802302-6.
  • Kardong, Kenneth V. Vertebrates Comparative Anatomy, Function, Evolution. p. 227.
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