temporal bone in dogs

The large, irregular bone located at the base and side of the skull; consists of three parts at birth: squamous, tympanic, and petrous. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the temporal bone is

The large, irregular bone located at the base and side of the skull; consists of three parts at birth: squamous, tympanic, and petrous. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the temporal bone is

It sits within the skeletal system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the temporal bone connects to

The atlas records 11 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. a kind of bone element.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the temporal 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 os temporale. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001678, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: bone element.
• contains: mastoid process of temporal bone, petrous part of temporal bone, squamous part of temporal bone, styloid process of temporal bone and zygomatic process of temporal bone.
• contributes to morphology of: squamous part of temporal bone, styloid process of temporal bone and subarcuate fossa.
• overlaps: chondrocranium.
• connects: lambdoid suture.

Questions

Where is the temporal bone?

It sits within the skeletal system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the temporal bone connect to?

A kind of: bone element.

Is the temporal 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.