Wombat skull with jaw muscles

3D Model

Common wombat (Vombatus ursinus) skull with jaw muscles segmented from MRI. This is a surface model used in the paper “Morphology of the Jaw-Closing Musculature in the Common Wombat (Vombatus ursinus) Using Digital Dissection and Magnetic Resonance Imaging”.

Temporalis in red, masseter in blue, lateral pterygoid in orange, and medial pterygoid in yellow.

Sharp, A. C., & Trusler, P. W. (2015). Morphology of the Jaw-Closing Musculature in the Common Wombat (Vombatus ursinus) Using Digital Dissection and Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Plos One, 10(2), e0117730. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0117730