promaxillary

English

Etymology

pro- +‎ maxillary

Adjective

promaxillary (not comparable)

  1. At the front of the jawbone
    • 2015 July 16, Junchang Lü, Stephen L. Brusatte, “A large, short-armed, winged dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of China and its implications for feather evolution”, in Scientific Reports‎, volume 5, DOI:10.1038/srep11775:
      A large promaxillary fenestra is also seen in other Liaoning dromaeosaurids such as Sinornithosaurus 21 and Tianyuraptor 15, but it is much smaller in most other dromaeosaurids, such as Velociraptor 26 and Tsaagan 27 .
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