Boundaries edit

• Medial/floor: frontal bone, parietal bone, (squamous part of) temporal bone, and sphenoid bone. The floor of the fossa features the pterion (the junction of these four bones).^[1]: 357
• Lateral/roof: temporal fascia.^[1]: 357
• Anterior: (posterior surface of) the frontal process of zygomatic bone,^{[citation needed]} (the posterior surface of^{[citation needed]}) the zygomatic process of frontal bone, and the maxilla.^[1]: 357
• Superior: Pair of temporal lines (superior and inferior temporal lines) that arch across the skull from the zygomatic process of the frontal bone to the supramastoid crest of the temporal bone^{[citation needed]}
• Inferior: zygomatic arch laterally and by the infratemporal crest of the greater wing of the sphenoid medially.^{[citation needed]}

Contents edit

• Temporalis muscle^[1]: 357
• Deep temporal arteries^{[citation needed]}
• Deep temporal nerves^{[citation needed]}
• Zygomaticotemporal nerve^{[citation needed]}

Relations edit

Deep to the zygomatic arch, the temporal fossa is inferiorly continuous with the (lateral part of) the infratemporal fossa.^[1]: 357

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  Temporal fossa