In Other Animals
In many animals these parts stay separate through life; e.g. in the dog as four parts: supraoccipital (= the squama); left and right exoccipital (= the lateral parts); basioccipital (= the basilar part).
This article incorporates text from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy.
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