Divergent paterns of cranial suture fusion in marsupial and placental mammals
Author
White, Heather E.
Centre for Craniofacial and Regenerative Biology, King’s College London, Great Maze Pond, London SE 1 9 RT, United Kingdom & Science Department, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom & Division of Biosciences, University College London, Gower Street, London WC 1 E 6 DE, United Kingdom
h.white@nhm.ac.uk
Author
Tucker, Abigail S.
Centre for Craniofacial and Regenerative Biology, King’s College London, Great Maze Pond, London SE 1 9 RT, United Kingdom
Author
Goswami, Anjali
Science Department, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom & Division of Biosciences, University College London, Gower Street, London WC 1 E 6 DE, United Kingdom
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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2025
2024-05-24
203
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https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae060
journal article
10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae060
0024-4082
14971787
Table 4. Order of Krogman region fusion for the placentals and marsupials compared to the Krogman pattern (1930), ordered chronologically, starting with the region to fuse first, based on ectocranial analysis. Order calculated from the average percentage of fusion across all sutures of the region for adult only specimens.| Krogman patern | Full dataset patern | Placental patern | Marsupial patern |
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| Vault | Vault (86.36%) | Vault (87.92%) | Vault (83.04%) |
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| Cranial base | Circum-meatal (77.08%) | Circum-meatal (79.17%) | Cranio-facial (82.14%) |
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| Circum-meatal | Cranio-facial (75.68%) | Cranial base (76.33%) | Facial (75.00%) |
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| Palate | Facial (73.41%) | Palate (73.33%) | Circum-meatal (72.62%) |
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| Facial | Palate (72.54%) | Facial (72.67%) | Palate (70.83%) |
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| Cranio-facial | Cranial base (72.27%) | Cranio-facial (72.67%) | Cranial base (63.57%) |
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