Studies in functional and analytical craniology. 7. The longoarcuate skull.

Abstract

An analysis is made of the morphofunctional relations of the longoarcuate skull, using the skulls of lagomorphs and rodents. Then the paper considers the morphology of the premaxillary node as well as the absence of the supraorbital node, the anterior translocation of the squamosal node, and the development of the preorbital node. Then details of the fronto-premaxillary junction and complicated morphofunctional connections in the preorbital node are given, Finally, the vectorial analysis of the structure of the longoarcuate skull is discussed.