temporalis muscle

Pharyngeal arch 1 muscle that is innervated by the deep temporal branches of the trigeminal nerve and attaches to the wall of the braincase (including the cranial vault) and mandible. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the temporalis muscle is

Pharyngeal arch 1 muscle that is innervated by the deep temporal branches of the trigeminal nerve and attaches to the wall of the braincase (including the cranial vault) and mandible. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the temporalis muscle is

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

What the temporalis muscle connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of head.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: mandibular nerve and deep temporal nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as jaw adductor muscle, musculus temporalis, temporal muscle and temporalis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001598, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: head.
• A kind of: masticatory muscle.
• Innervated by: mandibular nerve and deep temporal nerve.
• antagonist of: platysma.
• inserts into: mandible coronoid process.
• contains: skeletal muscle tissue of temporalis.

Questions

Where is the temporalis muscle?

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

What does the temporalis muscle connect to?

Part of: head.

Is the temporalis 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.