dura mater

Thick, fibrous meningeal covering surrounding the brain and spinal cord. It is the outermost of the three meningeal coverings. It consists of two layers: the periosteal dura linking the inner surface of the skull and the meningeal dura that lies above the arachnoid dural membrane. The meningeal layer draws away from the periosteal layer and certain locations to form the dural reflections. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the dura mater is

Thick, fibrous meningeal covering surrounding the brain and spinal cord. It is the outermost of the three meningeal coverings. It consists of two layers: the periosteal dura linking the inner surface of the skull and the meningeal dura that lies above the arachnoid dural membrane. The meningeal layer draws away from the periosteal layer and certain locations to form the dural reflections. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the dura mater is

It sits within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the dura mater connects to

The atlas records 11 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. a kind of meninx.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the dura mater. 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 dura mater of neuraxis, pachymeninges and dura. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002363, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: meninx.
• Adjacent to: subdural space.
• contains: falx cerebelli, falx cerebri, layer of dura mater and tentorium cerebelli.
• subtype: brain dura mater and spinal dura mater.
• Continuous with: sclera.
• surrounded by: epidural space.
• located in: venous dural sinus.

Questions

Where is the dura mater?

It sits within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the dura mater connect to?

A kind of: meninx.

Is the dura mater the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.