A prominent hole, the foramen orbitonasale, is present at the intersection of the prefrontal, palatine, and lacrimal. Parareptilian palates also have toothless and reduced ectopterygoid bones, a condition taken to extremes in mesosaurs, which have lost the ectopterygoid entirely.

Most "parareptiles" had large orbits (eye sockets), significantly longer (from front-to-back) than the region of the skull behind the eyes. The jugal