Location and Size
- Located within the jugular foramen
- Exits the skull
- Smaller than the inferior ganglion
- Superior to the inferior ganglion

Sensory Innervation
- Provides sensory innervation to the middle ear
- Provides sensory innervation to the internal surface of the tympanic membrane
- Axons branch from the glossopharyngeal nerve
- Forms the tympanic nerve
- Travels through the inferior tympanic canaliculus

Tympanic Plexus
- Sensory axons provide innervation of the middle ear
- Sensory axons provide innervation of the internal surface of the tympanic membrane
- Parasympathetic axons branch from the tympanic plexus
- Lesser petrosal nerve
- Otic ganglion

Central Processes
- Neurons in the superior ganglion synapse in the spinal trigeminal nucleus
- Glossopharyngeal nerve
- Synaptic connections in the spinal trigeminal nucleus
- Central processes of the neurons
- Glossopharyngeal nerve and spinal trigeminal nucleus connection

References
- Rubin, Michael (2017). Netters Concise Neuroanatomy
- Safdieh, Joseph E., Netter, Frank H. (Frank Henry), 1906-1991 (Updateded.). Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier. pp.253–258. ISBN9780323480918. OCLC946698976.
- Neuroanatomy article stub
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- Categories: Somatic ganglia of the head and neck, Glossopharyngeal nerve, Neuroanatomy stubs