occipitofrontalis muscle

The occipitofrontalis or epicranius is a muscle which covers parts of the skull. It consists of two parts or bellies: The occipital belly, near the occipital bone, and the frontal belly, near the frontal bone. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the occipitofrontalis muscle is

The occipitofrontalis or epicranius is a muscle which covers parts of the skull. It consists of two parts or bellies: The occipital belly, near the occipital bone, and the frontal belly, near the frontal bone. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the occipitofrontalis muscle is

It sits in the head, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the occipitofrontalis muscle connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of head.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: facial nerve and posterior auricular nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as epicranius, musculus occipitofrontalis, occipito-frontalis and occipitofrontalis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0010946, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: head.
• A kind of: muscle organ.
• Innervated by: facial nerve and posterior auricular nerve.
• contains: frontalis muscle belly and occipitalis.
• inserts into: epicranial aponeurosis.

Questions

Where is the occipitofrontalis muscle?

It sits in the head, within the muscular system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the occipitofrontalis muscle connect to?

Part of: head.

Is the occipitofrontalis muscle 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.