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SZALAY1 has attributed to Forsyth Major2 the statement that the ethmoid bone appears in the medial orbital wall of many Madagascar prosimians. But in fact, an orbital exposure (os planum) of the ethmoid is known only in Cheirogaleus and Microcebus among Lemuriformes. As Jones3 and Kollman4 have demonstrated, the element which Forsyth Major mistook for an os planum is the pre-nasopalatine part of the palatine bone.
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CARTMILL, M. Ethmoid Component in the Orbit of Primates. Nature 232, 566–567 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/232566b0
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