Assertion: middle ear | /r/SimilarTo | that of most other reptiles
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text: The middle ear of turtles in general resembles that of most other reptiles in possessing a tympanum, an air‐filled middle ear cavity and the osseous columella, which articulates laterally with the tympanic membrane via the cartilaginous extracolumella (Hetherington, 2008 ; Kardong, 2012 ).