Table 3 in Divergent paterns of cranial suture fusion in marsupial and placental mammals

Table 3. Order of suture fusion for the marsupials (6 species) and placentals (15 species), based on ectocranial analysis. Sutures are ordered chronologically, starting with the first suture to fuse. MarsupialsPlacentalsParieto-squamosalInterfrontalPterygo-palatineExoccipito-supraoccipitalFronto-parietalExoccipito-basioccipitalMaxillo-jugalAlispheno-squamosalNaso-frontalInternasalPalato-orbitosphenoidFronto-parietalAlispheno-squamosalInterparietalSupraoccipito-parietalParieto-squamosalExoccipito-squamosalNaso-frontalMaxillo-lacrimalSupraoccipito-parietalLacrimo-frontalSupraoccipito-squamosalInterfrontalMaxillo-palatineFronto-squamosalMaxillo-lacrimalInterpremaxillaryOrbitospheno-frontalPalato-alisphenoidPterygo-palatineInterparietalPalato-alisphenoidOrbitospheno-frontalPalato-orbitosphenoidPremaxillo-nasalInterpremaxillaryExoccipito-supraoccipitalInterpalatineExoccipito-basioccipitalLacrimo-frontalInterpalatineAlispheno-orbitosphenoidMaxillo-palatineIntermaxillaryPremaxillo-maxillary (facial)Maxillo-jugalSupraoccipito-squamosalFronto-squamosalIntermaxillaryBasispheno-basioccipitalPremaxillo-maxillary (ventral)Exoccipito-squamosalJugo-squamosalBasispheno-presphenoidInternasalPremaxillo-maxillary (facial)Alispheno-orbitosphenoidPremaxillo-nasalBasispheno-presphenoidPremaxillo-maxillary (ventral)Basispheno-basioccipitalJugo-squamosal