Across
- 3. The use of rapid, projected and sticky tongue to capture prey in most amphibians and lizards
- 5. Process of chewing the food before swallowing it
- 7. An unpaired medial dermal bone in the teeth of fishes and lower tetrapods
- 8. Method of capturing prey, by which the animal rapidly grasps the prey with its jaw
- 10. Most ancient part of skull
- 14. Supports the brain and is formed of endochondrial bone or cartilage or both
- 16. Method of capturing pray, a sudden vacuum to gulp in water carrying the intended food
- 17. Bones that expands into large swollen capsule that houses the middle ear ossicle in most eutherians
- 19. Dermal plates of the head that were thick and tightly joined into a unit
- 20. Movement between the upper jaw and the braincase about joints between them
Down
- 1. Swedish palaeontologist that proposed composite theory
- 2. Fused cranial components surrounding and encasing the brain
- 4. Branchial arches that supports the mouth
- 6. Equivalent term of chondrocranium
- 9. Have a prominent element called hyoman dibula
- 11. includes vertebral column, limbs, girdles and ribsand shells
- 12. If a joint passes through dermatocranium behind the eye, the skull exhibits ________.
- 13. Functional arch of jaw, the largest and most anterior series of arches
- 15. In suction feeding in water it is a flow where excess water entering the mouth must reverse its flow to exit via the mouth due to absence of gill slit
- 18. Only two sets of the teeth erupt during the life time of a mammal (milk teeth and permanent teeth)