occipital bone in dogs
The bone at the lower, posterior part of the skull. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the occipital bone is
The bone at the lower, posterior part of the skull. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the dog.
Where the occipital bone is
It sits in the head, within the skeletal system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.
What the occipital bone connects to
The atlas records 14 typed relationships for it, across 10 kinds of connection. part of cranium and neurocranium.
Supply and innervation
This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the occipital bone. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.
Also called
Also recorded as occipital complex, occipital squama and os occipitale. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001676, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: cranium and neurocranium.
- A kind of: anatomical structure, bone element and neurocranium bone.
- Attaches to: cleidooccipital muscle.
- inserts into: rectus capitis lateralis muscle and sternooccipital muscle.
- Develops from: sclerotome.
- overlaps: chondrocranium.
- surrounds: foramen magnum.
- contains: clivus of occipital bone.
Questions
Where is the occipital bone?
It sits in the head, within the skeletal system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.
What does the occipital bone connect to?
Part of: cranium and neurocranium.
Is the occipital bone the same in other species?
This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.