Preferred Label : suborbital shelf;
Uberon definition : On the neurocranium, a horizontal plate arising on the ventral junction of the orbital
wall and basal plate on each side which extends from the nasal capsule to the otic
capsule; it forms the floor of the orbit.;
Uberon Taxon note : A well-developed suborbital shelf is apparently primitive for shark-like fishes but
is variably telescoped, reduced or lost in many squalomorph sharks and a few galeomorphs.;
Origin ID : 0018361;
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On the neurocranium, a horizontal plate arising on the ventral junction of the orbital
wall and basal plate on each side which extends from the nasal capsule to the otic
capsule; it forms the floor of the orbit.
