Cranial Bones of Domestic Animals

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

Cranial bones 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

The occipital, sphenoid, and ethmoid are unpaired bones of the cranium.