. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 182 UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 247. diameter of the palatine is equivalent to about 17 (USNM 16570) to 20 percent (USNM 10677; fig. 83) of the length of the skull. The supraorbital processes of the frontals are incomplete on all skulls except the young specimen (USNM 10668). On one (USNM 10677), the outer portion of the right process is well preserved (pi. 65, fig. 4). The preorbital angle of this process is rounded and the postorbital is ex- tended backward to the end of the zygomatic process. On the young skull (f
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 182 UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 247. diameter of the palatine is equivalent to about 17 (USNM 16570) to 20 percent (USNM 10677; fig. 83) of the length of the skull. The supraorbital processes of the frontals are incomplete on all skulls except the young specimen (USNM 10668). On one (USNM 10677), the outer portion of the right process is well preserved (pi. 65, fig. 4). The preorbital angle of this process is rounded and the postorbital is ex- tended backward to the end of the zygomatic process. On the young skull (fig. 84; USNM 10668) the channel for the optic nerve curves outward on the ventral surface of the supraorbital process of the frontal in the usual manner and increasing in width becomes widest at the orbital rim. Near. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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