Periotic bone
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Periotic bone is the single bone that surrounds the ear of mammal
Mammal
Mammals are members of a class of air-breathing vertebrate animals characterised by the possession of endothermy, hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands functional in mothers with young...

s. It is formed from the fusion of the pro-otic, epiotic, and opisthotic bones.

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