Fig. 2.

The human cranial dura mater is firmly attached to the inner aspect of the neurocranium (depicted on plastinates of the W D Trotter Museum of the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand). A The skull base is covered with dura mater (apart from the left anterior skull base, where the dura mater and the roof of the orbit were removed). The tentorium cerebelli represents a dura mater extension that separates the cerebellum from the occipital lobe. B Remarkable dura mater structures of the calvaria are the falx cerebri and the meningeal vessels. a anterior, p posterior