Palpebral (bone)
Palpebral bone (highlighted) of Heterodontosaurus
Palpebral bone (highlighted) of Pliosaurus
The palpebral bone is a small
ceratopsians such as Archaeoceratops;[5] in these animals, the prong is elongate and would have stuck out and over the eye like a bony eyebrow. As paleoartist Gregory S. Paul has noted, elongate palpebrals would have given their owners fierce-looking "eagle eyes".[6] In such cases, the expanded palpebral may have functioned to shade the eye.[7]
References
- ^ Hyman, Libbie Henrietta (1942). Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy (2nd ed.). Chicago, Illinois, US: The University of Chicago Press. p. 177.
- JSTOR 1303019.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-520-24209-8.
- ISBN 978-0-520-06727-1.
- ^ You Hailu and Dodson, Peter. (2004). Basal Ceratopsia. In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmolska, Halszka (eds.) The Dinosauria (2nd Edition). Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 478–493.
- ISBN 978-0-312-26226-6.
- ISBN 978-0-901702-72-2.
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