The cartilaginous viscerocranium of buffalo skull includes the Meckel's cartilage and its derivatives malleus and incus, mandibular condyle, Reichert's cartilage and its derivatives including stapes, styloid process of temporal, tympanohyoid and hyoid. The formation of Meckel's cartilage was recognized first at 41 days. The ossification of the cartilaginous viscerocranium appeared first in the stylohyoid at 62 days. The bone wise sequence of appearance of ossification in the cartilaginous viscerocranium was the stylohyoid, the malleus, the body and the other cornua of the hyoid, the incus and the stapes.