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  • In anno sexcentesimo annorum vitae Noah, in mense secundo, in septimadecima die mensis, die ipsa, rupti sunt omnes fontes voraginis magnaaae, et fenestrae coeli apertae sunt.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • Quae si coe perit patere, illico introibit, modo solis, qui clausis fenestrae valvis introire, prohibetur, patentibus vero totus immittitur.

    Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863

  • Quae si coe perit patere, illico introibit, modo solis, qui clausis fenestrae valvis introire, prohibetur, patentibus vero totus immittitur.

    Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863

  • Mosasaurs had these fenestrae, too, and brain casts of the marine reptiles appear to indicate that a significant portion of the brain was associated with detecting smells.

    Wired Top Stories Brian Switek 2011

  • Mosasaurs had these fenestrae, too, and brain casts of the marine reptiles appear to indicate that a significant portion of the brain was associated with detecting smells.

    Wired Top Stories Brian Switek 2011

  • The therapsids have temporal fenestrae larger and more mammal-like than pelycosaurs their teeth show more serial differentiation; and later forms had evolved a [[secondary palate]].

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] HappyBirthdayDarwin 2010

  • The therapsids have temporal fenestrae larger and more mammal-like than pelycosaurs their teeth show more serial differentiation; and later forms had evolved a [[secondary palate]].

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] HappyBirthdayDarwin 2010

  • The therapsids have temporal fenestrae larger and more mammal-like than pelycosaurs, their teeth show more serial differentiation; and later forms had evolved a secondary palate.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] HappyBirthdayDarwin 2010

  • This ontogenetic pattern contributed to the naming of some new pachycephalosaurid taxa based on diagnostic characters (large supratemporal fenestrae, squamosal horns, nodal cranial ornamentation, inflated frontoparietal dome) that we demonstrate in this study are, in fact, ontogenetic features that undergo extreme modification as the skull length increases, the cranial vault enlarges and the frontoparietal dome expands.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • In Spinosaurus, the snout is not quite as long, proportionately, and the skull height begins to rise once you hit the antorbital fenestrae, sloping gradually toward the orbits.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2009

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