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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2024
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This jaw joint called the dentary–squamosal contact in Riograndia likely evolved entirely separately and around 17 million years earlier.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2024
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“Squamosal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/squamosal. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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squamosal
1 of 2 noun
squa·mo·sal
skwā-ˈmō-səl 
skwə-
skwə-
: a squamosal bone
squamosal
2 of 2 adjective1
2
: of, relating to, or being a bone in the skull of many vertebrates that corresponds to the squamous portion of the temporal bone in humans
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