Moreover, the skull roof of is also pitted in phytosaurs.
The skull roof was able to be examined by excavating the matrix from the top of the block.
The rest of the skull roof has a tendency towards fragmentation into small bones.
The plates are in fact part of the latter's skull roof.
The lack of the skull roof means the fossil cannot be placed at family level.
Tuditanomorphs have a similar pattern of bones in the skull roof.
The ornamentation on the surface of the skull roof also develops at this time.
In modern amphibians the skull roof is further reduced and has large openings.
This type of skull roof without any above openings behind the eyes is called anapsid.
There is also a depression on the squamosal bone of the skull roof.