Crocs ( and dinos?) muscles pulling liver backward and 'rocking' pelvic bones ... How could phylogeny explain the difference between turtles and crocs? ...
Snakes and lizards. Thecodonts (ancestral group of higher diapsids) Diapsids ... day lizards) was the sprawling stance imposed by the position of the legs ...
... have shown that the earliest tetrapods had more than five fingers and toes. ... Sixty-five m.y.a., the last of the giant marine diapsids became extinct. ...
Introduction to Birds. Acorn Woodpecker. Bald Eagle. Peregrine Falcon. American White Pelican ... http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/saurischia/theropoda.html ...
KEY CONCEPT Reptiles were the first amniotes. Reptiles are a diverse group of amniotes. Reptiles share several characteristics. ectotherms covered with dry scales ...
KEY CONCEPT Reptiles were the first amniotes. Reptiles are a diverse group of amniotes. Reptiles share several characteristics. ectotherms covered with dry scales ...
Common North American painted turtle 'Amphibia' Amniota ... 'Horny-toads' are not toads. Komodo dragon largest living lizard. Meditteranean chaemelon ...
Cretaceous turtle Archelon Mosasaurs Giant marine lizards (the Komodo Dragon is closest living relative to these) Mosasaurs Evolved from land lizard, ...
Amniotes through Eutherians Chapter 34.6-34.8 By: Francisco Berrios and Siria Arzuaga Amniotes A group of tetrapods that trace back to the same common ancestor.
Herpetology. Ornithology. Mammalogy. Ichthyology. Class Chondrichthyes. Class Agnatha. Class Amphibia ... Lateral skeletal elements in appendage. fin rays in appendage ...
Websites for more information on the exciting world of ... Tyrant reptile king. MEANING. Tie-ran-no-saw-rus. PRONOUNCED. The Skull of a Tyrannosaurus Rex ...
... into the Archosauromorpha (Crocs, birds, pterosaurs, and ... differently than crocs. move nares to top of skull. Saurischia. Palaeopoda (4-legged gait) ...
LECTURE 7: Mesozoic Era 248 mya 65 mya Periods of the Mesozoic Era Triassic 248 mya-206 mya Jurassic 206 mya-146 mya Cretaceous 146 mya-65 mya What Significant ...
Triassic - North America and Gondwanaland rift apart; ... Africa and Antarctica/Australia rift apart. End of Jurassic - Eurasia rotates, closing off Tethys, ...
Higher Chordates Amphibia, Reptilia, & Aves Subphyla Vertebrata Evolution of tetrapods One of the most significant events in vertebrate history was when the fins of ...
... live in trees Africa and Madagascar Catch insects with tongue Komodo Dragon Attack and eat humans 10 feet long 300 pounds Indonesia Snakes Elongated derivative ...
All About The Velociraptor By Ariana, Eli, Jimmy, Liam and Trinity The Velociraptor lived in Russia, China, and Mongolia. They were in Asia. The Velociraptor s ...
This 147-million-year-old Archaeopteryx fossil, owned by London's Natural History Museum, ... the world, Archaeopteryx is usually kept in environmentally ...
Mesozoic Era (Jurassic Period)- Age of Reptiles ... Labyrinthodont amphibians led to stem ... Figure 5.14: (a) Archaeopteryx (b) pigeon. Literature Cited ...
Dinosaur Adoption A WebQuest for 5th Grade Designed by Kelley Meinholt Roger Williams University RI State Standards RI- Rhode Island Content and Performance Standards ...
What does life on land versus life in the ocean require? What evidence supports that the ... Diapsid - two holes (lizards, dinosaurs, snakes, crocs) ...
Lots of claws and teeth, including huge talon on one digit of forelimbs ... Dinosaurs were huge - could have been effectively homeothermic w/o endothermy ...
... having a single cavity in their skulls through which muscles from the jaw pass. ... aethiopicus - 2.6-2.3 Ma - known from one skull plus some other bits. ...
Patterns in Evolution I. Phylogenetic II. Morphological III. Historical (later) IV. Biogeographical The only trait we did not define was an autapomorphy - this is a ...
The hypothesis is a tree topology, its branch-lengths and a ... Opossum. Platypus. Echidna. Skink. Iguana. Green Turtle. Painted Turtle. Alligator. Caiman ...
... further reduction of the jugal in Archosauria (crocs and birds) and Lepidosauria results in a single temporal opening. (A fourth pattern, euryapsid, ...
Synapsids (mammals) Exercise 1. On your own face find your temporal fossa. Sketch your marine mammal skull, identify the mandible, orbit, sagittal crest, ...
Multituberculates - now extinct - rodent-like mammals who lived from Jurassic to ... marsupial dogs, cats, rodents, even a lion-like marsupial with retractable claws ...
From classification based on temporal fenestration two groups ... Have Anapsid skulls. Turtles. Systematic relationships with other amniotes poorly understood. ...
characterized chiefly by a vertebral column. Earliest known was the conodont ... sharing a more recent common ancestor with Allosaurus than with modern birds) ...
The skull bones of this herbivorous reptile have undergone enormous thickening. ... Dinocephalians: most were large, with massive bodies and thick skulls. ...
Random Permutation. Random permutation destroys any correlation among ... A permutation tail probability (PTP) is the proportion of data sets with as good ...
Evolution at the molecular level is radically different from evolution at the ... Darwin's theory reinterpreted homology as common ancestry. ATCGGCCACTTTCGCGATCA ...
if dinosaurs were dumb and slow, why were they the dominant life form for 150my? ( No non-dinosaur larger than a turkey walked the land during the age of dinosaurs) ...
How did our planet get the way it is today, anyway? Geologic Time. picture books ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous-Tertiary_extinction_event. Mesozoic Era ...