tetrapods in English
Before tetrapods existed, vertebrates were all confined to living in aquatic habitats.
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1. Features shared by Amphioxuses, fishes, sea squirts and tetrapods
2. In tetrapods, Claws are made of keratin and consist of two layers
3. The characteristic that sets Amniotes apart from other tetrapods is that Amniotes lay eggs that are well …
4. Amniotes (Amniota) are a group of tetrapods that includes birds, reptiles, and mammals
5. The Amniotes are the evolutionary branch (clade) of the tetrapods (superclass Tetrapoda) in which the embryo develops
6. The braincase of sarcopterygians primitively has a hinge line, but this is lost in tetrapods and lungfish.
7. Amniotes are believed to have separated from non-amniotic tetrapods about 300 – 350 million years ago.
8. Second, the axial-based locomotion plesiomorphic for Craniates became progressively appendage-based with the evolution of extremities in tetrapods.
9. Amphibians were not the first tetrapods, but as a group they diverged from the stock that would soon, in a paleontological sense, become the amniotes and the ancestors of modern reptiles and Amphibians. Tetrapods are descendants from a group of sarcopterygian (lobe-finned) fishes.
10. Amniotes (Amniota) are a group of tetrapods that includes birds, reptiles, and mammals. Amniotes evolved during the late Paleozoic era
11. Batrachians (salamanders and frogs) have simplified skulls, with dermal bones appearing rudimentary compared with fossil tetrapods, and open cheeks resulting from the absence of other bones
12. The Amniotes are the evolutionary branch (clade) of the tetrapods (superclass Tetrapoda) in which the embryo develops within a set of protective extra-embryonic membranes —the amnion, chorion, and …
13. Many primitive lineages went extinct as sharks and bony fish became masters of the waters and tetrapods, the four-legged animals that eventually evolved into dinosaurs and mammals, conquered the land.
14. Amniotes evolved during the late Paleozoic era.The characteristic that sets Amniotes apart from other tetrapods is that Amniotes lay eggs that are well-adapted to survive in a terrestrial environment.
15. ‘In the earliest known post-Tapinocephalus Zone fauna of southern Africa (where the fossil record for late Permian tetrapods is most complete), new groups of big herbivores - the Beaked and toothless dicynodonts - …
16. DiApsids ("two arches") are a group of amniote tetrapods that developed two holes ( temporal fenestra) in each side of their skulls about 300 million years ago during the late Carboniferous period
17. In tetrapods, Cervical vertebrae (singular: vertebra) are the vertebrae of the neck, immediately below the skull.Truncal vertebrae (divided into thoracic and lumbar vertebrae in mammals) lie caudal (toward the tail) of Cervical vertebrae
18. Amniotes are defined in your accompanying lesson as 'tetrapods with a terrestrially adapted egg.' In this quiz, you will be tested on the evolution it took to for Amniotes to develop, as well as
19. Sternum, also called Breastbone, in the anatomy of tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates), elongated bone in the centre of the chest that articulates with and provides support for the clavicles (collarbones) of the shoulder girdle and for the ribs
20. Amniotes are tetrapods (descendants of four-limbed and backboned animals) that are characterised by having an egg equipped with an amnion, an adaptation to lay eggs on land rather than in water as the anamniotes (including frogs) typically do.
21. Of course, before there could be Archosaurs (much less full-blown dinosaurs), nature had to evolve the first true reptile.At the start of the Carboniferous period--the swampy, wet, vegetation-choked era during which the first peat bogs formed—the most common land creatures were prehistoric amphibians, themselves descended (by way of the earliest tetrapods) from the proverbial prehistoric