tetrapod parietal bone

In humans: bone forming side and roof of cranium. Each bone is irregularly quadrilateral in form, and has two surfaces, four borders, and four angles. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the tetrapod parietal bone is

In humans: bone forming side and roof of cranium. Each bone is irregularly quadrilateral in form, and has two surfaces, four borders, and four angles. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the tetrapod parietal bone is

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

What the tetrapod parietal bone connects to

The atlas records 18 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of craniocervical region, head and neurocranium, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the tetrapod parietal 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 actinopterygian frontal bone, frontal bone, parietal, parietal bone and os parietale. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000210, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: craniocervical region, head, neurocranium and vault of skull.
• A kind of: bone element, cranial bone and flat bone.
• connects: coronal suture, lambdoid suture, parietomastoid suture, sagittal suture, sphenoparietal suture and squamoparietal suture.
• contains: granula foveaolae of parietal bone, groove for middle meningeal a. of parietal bone and groove for superior sagittal sinus of parietal bone.
• contributes to morphology of: vault of skull.
• Develops from: tetrapod parietal bone primordium.

Questions

Where is the tetrapod parietal bone?

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

What does the tetrapod parietal bone connect to?

Part of: craniocervical region, head, neurocranium and vault of skull.

Is the tetrapod parietal 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.