Boundaries • 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).'''''' • Lateral/roof:
temporal fascia.'''''' • Anterior: (posterior surface of) the frontal process of zygomatic bone, (the posterior surface of) the
zygomatic process of frontal bone, and the
maxilla.'''''' • 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 • Inferior:
zygomatic arch laterally and by the infratemporal crest of the greater wing of the sphenoid medially.
Contents •
Temporalis muscle'''''' •
Deep temporal arteries •
Deep temporal nerves •
Zygomaticotemporal nerve Relations Deep to the zygomatic arch, the temporal fossa is inferiorly continuous with the (lateral part of) the
infratemporal fossa.'''''' ==Additional images==