%0 Journal Article %T Ontogeny and phylogeny of the mammalian chondrocranium: the cupula nasi anterior and associated structures of the anterior head region %A Athanasia C. Tzika %A Evelyn H邦ppi %A Ingmar Werneburg %A Marcelo R. S芍nchez-Villagra %J Archive of "Zoological Letters". %D 2018 %R 10.1186/s40851-018-0112-0 %X General anatomy of the cartilaginous nose. a Scheme adopted from Maier [56] on the rostral nasal cartilage in an adult Neomys fodiens. Cartilage in blue, bones (only on right body side) in orange, soft tissue in gray. Cross-sections of a pouch young Caluromys philander; dpn (postnatal days) 30, HL (head length) 13 mm at the ethmoidal region with details of the cupula nasi anterior, b anterior wall of cartilago cupularis, c cartilago cupularis in the region of fenestra narina, d region posterior to the fenestra narina, e anterior margin of the zona annularis. Numbers of histological serial sections are indicated at the bottom right of each figure. Numbers ascend in caudal direction. Scale bars equal 1 mm. Abbreviations: ai 每 area internarica, ane 每 apertura nasi externa, at 每 atrioturbinale, cc 每 cartilago cupularis, cdn 每 cartilago ductus nasopalatini, cna 每 cupula nasi anterior, cpa 每 cartilago paraseptalis anterior, dnl 每 ductus nasolacrimalis, dnp 每 ductus nasopaltinus, fpt 每 foramen praetransversale, lat. lam 每 lateral lamina, lta 每 lamina transversalis anterior, mat 每 marginoturbinale, med. lam 每 medial lamina, pas 每 processus alaris superior, pc 每 processus cupularis, plv 每 processus lateralis ventralis, pmx 每 praemaxillare, pn 每 paries nasi, ppl 每 processus paralacrimalis, sn 每 septum nasi, ss 每 sulcus supraseptalis, sv 每 sulcus ventralis, tea 每 tectum nasi anterius, tei 每 tectum nasi intermedium, tep 每 tectum nasi profundum, tn 每 tectum nasi, vno 每 organon vomeronasale, vo 每 vomer, za 每 zona annulari %K Chondrocranium %K Cupula nasi anterior %K Mammalia %K Ontogeny %K Therian ancestor %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6260904/