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From: Lions & sea lions & bears, oh my: utilizing museum specimens to study the ossification sequence of carnivoran taxa

Fig. 6

PGi consensus tree of cranial characters. Ossification sequence is shown for each tip. Species with new data shown in red. Character key: 1: Premaxilla, 2: Maxilla, 3: Dentary, 4: Frontal, 5: Nasal, 6: Jugal, 7: Lacrimal, 8: Parietal, 9: Squamosal, 10: Vomer, 11: Palatine, 12: Orbitosphenoid, 13: Basisphenoid, 14: Pterygoid, 15: Alisphenoid, 16: Basioccipital, 17: Supraoccipital, 18: Exoccipital, 19: Ectotympanic, 20: Goniale, 21: Petrosal. A = advanced ossification, D = delayed ossification

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