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Amnion
Protects embryo from mechanical shock. Located inside chorion, consists of amnionic cavity and embryo.
Chorion
Allows for gas exchange. Contains amnion, yolk sac, and allantois.
Yolk Sac
Contains food. Inside chorion.
Allantois
Waste disposal bag. Located inside chorion but outside amnion.
Hylonomous
Earliest example of amniote.
Reptilia
Includes reptiles, including birds.
Synapsida
Includes mammals, including humans.
Synapsid
One skull hole behind eye socket. Humans.
Anapsid
No skull holes behind eye socket. Only turtles.
Diapsid
Two skull holes behind eye socket. Reptilia.
Cloacas
Single opening for egg, sperm, and waste.
Testudines
Turtles, tortises, sea turtles.
Carapace
Where turtles withdraw their skull.
Intromittent Organ
Organs males possess that inserts sperm inside female.
Lepidosauria
Tutaras, snakes, and lizards.
Lepido
Scale
Saur
Lizard
Tutaras
Have teeth fused to jawbone and lack intromittent organ.
Squamata
Snakes and lizards. Loosely jointed jaws and skull and paired hemipenis.
Squam
Scaly.
Crocodilia
Alligators, crocodiles, gharials.
Archosauria
Includes birds, crocodilians, oterisaurs and non-avian dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs
Include some of the largest animals to inhabit land.
Deino
Terror.
Aves
Birds.
Archaeopteryx
Most famous extinct bird with wings, teeth, and wing claws.
Precocial
Young able to feed self.
Altricial
Young born helpless and featherless.
Dimetrodon
Sailbacks, reptile-like synapsids.
Therapsida
Ther=beast. Characterized by enlargement of dentary bone.
Mammals
Leftover jaw remnants make up middle ear. Differentiated teeth. Hair, diaphragm, endothermic and homeothermic. Mammary glands and intromission.
Occlude
Fit together (teeth).
Monotremata
Platypus and echidna. Lay eggs and have cloacas.
Oviparous
Lay eggs.
Theria
Marsupials and eutherians. Placenta initially, nipples.
Marsupialia
Characterized by pouch. Have cloaca.
Eutherian
Non-marsupial therians. Nipples.
Afrotheria
Underwent diversification in Africa. Elephants.
Xenartha
Anteaters, sloths, armidillos. Lack teeth, evolved in South America. Extra articulations in vertabrae.
Xenos
Strange.
Laurasiathera
Includes carnivores and bats. Also includes cetartiodactyla (even toed hoofed mammals and dolphins) and perissodactyla (odd toed hoofed).
Chiroptera
Bats, Only mammal capable of powered flight. Sonar. White-noise syndrome wiping out bat colonies.
Cetartiodactyla
Combination of orders cetacea and artiodactyla. Even toed hoofed mammals and dolphins.
Perissodactyla
Odd toed mammals, such as horses, zebras, donkeys, tapirs, and rhinos.
Lagomorpha
Rabbits, hares.
Rodentia
Rats, mice, squirrels, beavers. Constantly growing teeth.
Scandentia
Tree shrews, sister group to primates.
Primates
Monkeys, apes, humans. Thumbs and toe widely separated, flat nails, forward facing eyes, pentadactyl.
Anthropoids
Primates that include humans, monkeys, and apes. Anthropo = human.
Hominidae
Humans, orangutans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and great apes. Lack tails.
Osteichthyes
Bony fish.
Osteo
Bone.
Ichthys
Fish.
Ossified
Bony.
Endo vs. Exoskeleton
Inside and outside skeleton, respectively.
Operculum
In bony fish, covers gills.
Isinglass
Dried swim bladder used in the removal of yeast from beer.
Actinopterygii
Ray-finned fishes.
Actin
Ray.
Actinistia
Lobe-finned fishes.
Coelacanth
Only extant genus within actinistia.
Dipnoi
Lungfish.
Pneu
Air/breathe.
Tetra
Four.
Pod
Foot.
Amphi
Both.
Bios
Life.
Anura
Frogs and toads.
An
Without.
Uro
Tail.
Urodela
Salamanders and newts.
Paedogenetic
Become reproductively active while in larval form.
Craniata
Chordates with a head. Largest animals that ever lived.
Cranium
Skull.
Agnathans
Jawless craniates.
Gnath
Jaw.
Myxini
Hagfish. Lack vertebrae.
Myxo
Slime.
Gnathostomes
Have jaws.
Gnath
Jaw.
Stome
Mouth.
Origin of Jaws
Anterior skeletal rods that used to support phrangeal slits.
Posterior Slits
Gill slits.
Condrichthyes
Sharks, rays, and chimeras. Cartilagenous fishes.
Deuterostomia
Bilaterally symmetrical. Triploblastic. Radial, indeterminate cleavage. Enterocoelous coelom. Blastopore DOES NOT become mouth.
Echinodermata
Sea stars, sea urchins, sea lilies, sea cucumbers. Only found in sea.
Echi
Spines.
Tube Feet
Network of hydraulic canals for echinoderm water vascular system.
Madreporite
Special porous ossicle that connects water vascular system of echinoderm to sea water.
Asteroidia
Starfish.
Aster
Star.
Crinoidea
Sea lilies. Stalked and sessile.
Holothuroidea
Sea cucumbers. Secondarily bilaterally symmetrical. Scattered ossicles.
Dorsal
Back. Think “dorsal fin”.
Notochord
Flexible rod located dorsally between digestive tube and nerve cord.
Noto
Back.
Chord
Cord.
Synapomorphies of Chordata
NotochordDorsal, hollow nerve cord. Pharyngeal clefts. Post-anal tail.
Urochordata
Tunicates. Mostly sessile. No chevrons. Pharyngeal basket.
Uro
Tail.
Paedogenesis
Becoming sexually mature in larval form.
Paedo
Child.
Cephalo
Head.
Cephalochordates
Lancelots. Adult has all four synapomorphies. Minimal cephalization, but has muscle blocks.
Lancelots
Secondary suspension feeders. Wriggle into sand, suck in water and extract particles using mucous. Mucous then ingested. Water exits through atriopore.
Atriopore
Hole through which water exits in suspension feeding of cephalochordata.
Pancrustaecea
Phylogeny where crustaceans have hexapods nested inside.
Cephalothorax
Merging of head and thorax in arthropods.
Biramous Limbs
Two-branched limbs.
Trilobita
Wiped out at end-Permian. 3-lobed. 1 pair antennae. 1 pair compound eyes. Many pairs biramous limbs.
Crustacea
Crabs, lobsters, shrimp.
Carapace
Shield that covers dorsal and lateral sides.
Mandibles
For biting/chewing.