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THE evolution and organization of the reptilian cortical structures have long been a major problem to comparative neuroanatomists. Three major cortical layers are recognized1. In reptiles, these three regions (Fig. 1A) occupy the roof of the telencephalon and form distinct cellular masses which are named as follows in dorsomedial to dorsolateral succession: hippocampus (archipallium), general cortex (neopallium), and pyriform cortex (palaeopallium). In addition, a sub-pallial mass, the ‘primordial general cortex’2, is of pallial origin3.
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NORTHCUTT, R. Analysis of Reptilian Cortical Structure. Nature 210, 848–850 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/210848a0
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