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In some fishes, the palatoquadrate is the dorsal component of the mandibular arch, the ventral one being
Meckel's cartilage. The palatoquadrate forms from
splanchnocranium in various chordates including
placoderms and
acanthodians.
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^ Kardong, Kenneth (2015). Vertebrates: Comparative Anatomy, Function, Evolution -Seventh edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Education. pp. 244–248, 256.
ISBN
978-0-07-802302-6.
- Kardong, Kenneth V. Vertebrates Comparative Anatomy, Function, Evolution. p. 227.