temporal bone
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 human body.
Where the temporal bone is
It sits within the skeletal system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What the temporal bone connects to
The atlas records 35 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. a kind of pneumatized bone.
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: pneumatized bone.
- contains: articular tubercle of squamous part of temporal bone, carotid canal, external auditory meatus of squamous part of temporal bone, facial nerve canal, groove for posterior deep temporal artery of squamous part of temporal bone and hiatus and groove of petrous part of temporal bone for greater petrosal nerve, and 19 more.
- connects: lambdoid suture, occipitomastoid suture and parietomastoid suture.
- contributes to morphology of: squamous part of temporal bone, styloid process of temporal bone and subarcuate fossa.
- originates from: levator veli palatini and posterior digastric muscle.
- overlaps: splanchnocranium.
Questions
Where is the temporal bone?
It sits within the skeletal system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.
What does the temporal bone connect to?
A kind of: pneumatized bone.
Is the temporal bone 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.