Summary: | Fig. 21. Anatomical features of the maxilla and surrounding bones in four extant murine species. A, Rattus rattus (CM35627), right premaxilla, maxilla and palatine bones in dorsolateral view; and B, Rattus rattus (CM35628), right maxilla and palatine bones in dorsal view; C, Mallomys gunung (CM11715), rostral fragment of cranium with bones of roof removed to expose inner structures of narial chamber; and D, Uromys caudimaculatus (ANWCP34), right premaxilla, maxilla and palatine bones in dorsolateral view. Abbreviations: app, anterior palatine process; dpc, descending palatine artery and nerve canal; if, incisive foramen; igc, incisor generative capsule; ios, infraorbital sulcus; mr, medial ridge of maxillary sinus complex; msc, maxillary sinus complex; nps, nasopharyngeal sulcus; nvs, neurovascular sulcus; olm, orbital lamina of maxilla; pms, premaxilla-maxilla suture; sps, sphenopalatine sulcus; zp, zygomatic plate. Scale bars each represent 5 mm. One scale bar is shared by A and B. Published as part of Aplin, K. P. & Helgen, K. M., 2010, Quaternary Murid Rodents Of Timor Part I: New Material Of Coryphomys Buehleri Schaub, 1937, And Description Of A Second Species Of The Genus, pp. 1-80 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (341) on page 61, DOI:10.1206/692.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10112217
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