FIG. 6 in Craniodental Morphology And Phylogeny Of Marsupials

FIG. 6. Posterior braincase of Dromiciops gliroides (A, UWBM 78641), Marmosa murina (B, AMNH 266418), and Echymipera kalubu (C, AMNH 190977). Alternative states for characters 30 and 31 (see main text for descriptions of these characters and character states) are illustrated as follows: Dromiciops 30(1), 31(0); Marmosa 30(1), 31(1); Echymipera 30(0), 31(-). Note that the incompletely mineralized lambdoid sesamoids (see Character 89) have fallen away in this juvenile specimen of Echymipera (the mature morphology is illustrated in fig. 11), fully exposing the parietal-supraoccipital suture. Abbreviations: exo, exoccipital; ip, interparietal; mas, mastoid; mf, mastoid fenestra; par, parietal; so, supraocciptal; sq, squamosal; ssf, subsquamosal foramen. Specimens are not drawn to the same scale.