<Tr> <Th> FMA </Th> <Td> 54079 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Anatomical terms of bone (edit on Wikidata) </Td> </Tr> <P> The sella turcica (Latin for Turkish seat) is a saddle - shaped depression in the body of the sphenoid bone of the human skull and of the skulls of other hominids including chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas . It serves as a cephalometric landmark . The pituitary gland or hypophysis is located within the most inferior aspect of the sella turcica, the hypophyseal fossa . </P> <P> The sella turcica is located in the sphenoid bone behind the chiasmatic groove and the tuberculum sellae . It belongs to the middle cranial fossa . </P>

The sella turcica which houses the pituitary (brain) is part of what cranial bone