Lemur skull, painted
Maker
Frederic Wood Jones (b.1879, d.1954)
Date
Circa 1930-1937
Description
Skull, no mandible, with calvarium sectioned off, of a lemur (Superfamily Lemuroidea). Originally mounted on a comparative osteology display board showing the key articulations of the base of the skull. The interior of the skulls have been painted to show equivalent bones of the skull in different species. Key - pink: occipital bone, blue: parietal bone, purple: temporal bone, red: sphenoid, yellow: frontal, green: cribriform plate of ethmoid bone, dark blue: lesser wing of sphenoid bone. This display compared the skulls of a lemur, wallaby, dog, human, chimpanzee and a New World monkey, dog, lemur, sheep, orangutan, Old World monkey and a chimpanzee.
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