Generally, it is located behind the postfrontal and posteriorly to the orbital fenestra.
In some vertebrates, the postorbital is fused with the postfrontal to create a postorbitofrontal.
Birds have a separate postorbital as an embryo, but the bone fuses with the frontal before it hatches.
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