Cranial Bones of animals

The cranial bones form the cranial cavity which lodges the brain with its meninges, vessels and essential organ of hearing.

They are named as follows –

1. Parietal bone
2. Interparietal bone
3. Occipital bone
4. Sphenoid bone
5. Ethmoid bone
6. Temporal bone
7. Frontal bone

Occipital, sphenoid, ethmoid are unpaired bones of Cranium.