Across
- 8. If a joint passes through the dermatocranium behind the eye
- 10. Ancient chordate structure, support pharyngeal slits in protochordates
- 12. Ribs that meet ventrally with the sternum
- 13. External naris
- 14. Series of cartiliginous or bony elements
- 16. Cartiliginous anlagen that give rise to dorsal and ventral arches
- 17. Run across the top of the skull and cover the brain beneath
- 18. A method by which animal rapidly grasps the prey with its jaws
- 21. If a hinge passes across the back of the skull
- 22. Largest and most anterior of the modified series of arches
- 24. Encircles the external naris and collectively forms the snout
- 25. Dorsal arches that protected the neural tube (1)
- 26. A bony flap that covered the exit gill slits
- 29. Ventral arches enclosing the blood vessels (1)
- 32. Long, continous rod of fibrous connective tissue
- 33. Arranged serially along the notochord
- 34. Lies behind the orbit, completing the posterior wall of the braincase
- 35. First cervical vertebra
- 37. Equivalent term for the chondrocranium by some morphologists
- 38. Abdominal ribs
- 39. First step in feeding
Down
- 1. An elaborate cartilaginous case around the brain
- 2. Branchial arches that support the mouth
- 3. Chewing of food
- 4. Use of rapid sticky tongue to capture prey
- 5. Provide sites for secure muscle attachment and a protective case around viscera
- 6. Lies medial to the naris
- 7. Consist of ribs and sternal elements
- 9. Gulp in water carrying the intended food
- 11. Internal naris
- 15. Dermal plates of the head joined into a unit
- 19. A midventral skeletal structure that is endochondral in embryonic origin
- 20. Centra with flat ends
- 23. Dorsal arches that protected the neural tube (2)
- 27. False ribs articulating with nothing ventrally
- 28. Ventral arches enclosing the blood vessels (2)
- 30. Centra that are concave anteriorly and convex posteriorly
- 31. Continous coat of varrying thickness enclosing the notochord
- 33. A composite bony plate forming the floor of the shell within turtles
- 36. Ribs that articulate with each other but not with the sternum