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Show 12 Conepatus The skull is more cavities appear to be robust than that of inflated, giving the skull From the lateral contoured appearance. from the alveolar In Mephitis ridge of the The sinuses and Mephitis. aspect, premaxillia rounded and a the skull is convex to the lambdoidal crest. the craniad termination of this convexity is at the anterior end of the nasals. The vertex of the skull to the on the sagittal crest in the skull of highest point feature of the skull, constriction. This is the narrowest an hourglass The from a dorsal is well The Mephitis. ost striking aspect, is the postorbital region of the skull, giving processes of the frontals postorbital are are reduced to the cranial terminations of the human anatomy) adult specimens of Conepatus, because of the a to the lambdoidal Conepatus than in those of the mastoidal sinuses inflated, convex tympanic bulla is more (basion in one-hird greater in Mephitis. The jugals are reduced and mastoidal processes. jugal inflated in crest. reduced and obscured are parietals. flat surface exists between the The is about ridge mere sagittal The distance from the dorsal border of the foramen gnum and it appearance. rounded knobs which In posterior Conepatus than in Mephitis. In both the ventral surface of the bulla and the process of the pterygoid are equally distad from the skull. medially and tapers laterally craniomedially to the to the external The bulla is largest auditory meatus, basisphenoidal tympanic suture and caudolaterally |
