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The fontanelles (or fontanels) are the membraneous areas between the cranial bones in an infant (the "soft spot" your mom always told you to be careful of).
If you are using 1995 guidelines you would count this as a body area "Head/face." If you are using 1997 guidelines you would count this under musculoskeletal "notation of any misalignment, asymmetry, crepitation, defects, tenderness, masses or effusions."