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The splenial (sp), entering into the Meckelian symphysis primitively (Figs. 15–18), extending back to the posterior inferior Meckelian foramen, articulating with the dentary, coronoid, prearticular, and angular, is not infrequently absent. In Pantylus (Fig. 18) only, so far as known, the postsplenial corresponds to its posterior part as in the known Stegocephalia (Fig. 15). It [the splenial] never bears