postorbital

alternative post-orbital

1. not comparableBehind the orbit of the eye.

   the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles

plural postorbitals · alternative post-orbital

1. A postorbital bone or scale.

   In the absence (e.g., Figs. 31 b, 33, 44, 45, etc.) of the intertemporal and supratemporals, the parietals articulate directly with the squamosals and postorbitals; in the Chelonia (Fig. 30) and Crocodilia, also directly with the pterygoids. Fused in most late reptiles (e.g., Figs. 69, 72).

   1925, Samuel Wendell Williston, “Chapter 1”, in The Osteology of the Reptiles