Functional evolution of the mammalian middle ear and jaw joint across the cynodont-mammaliaform tran In this project we use CT scanning and computational biomechanics to quantify the function of the ...

The researchers uncovered a 'mammalian-style' contact between the skull and the lower jaw in Riograndia guaibensis, a ...

These had a jaw joint consisting of two separate bones - the quadrate of the skull and the articular in ... million-year-old fossils of two extinct cynodont species from present-day Brazil.