Lesson 22 - Mannals Flashcards

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what was the most abundant terrestrial

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synapsids
^^ they were the top carnivores in the permian

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key feature of synapsids

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  • the one hole in the side of the skull
  • in the mammals, thise hole for the most past has been lost
  • most were medium to large in size
  • most mammals were quite small
    —– maybe that is what allowed these groups to snek through and not be driven to extinction
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sailback dinosaur

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  • basal ones were lizard like
  • refereed to as the sailbacks of the lae paleozoic
  • were anmiotes
  • didn’t have the increased motor capacity like the later groups
  • not thought of as being endothermic
  • most were carnivores
  • if the scales had blood supply – then a major reason behind it would be thermoregulation
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comparing dimmetridon and dog

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  • go from homodont to heterodont
  • temporal fenestra chanfes
  • orbits are differnt
    — totally lateral in the dimetridon but more medial in the dog

HINGE OF JAW
- between quadrate and articular
^^^^ lost in mammals
- condoloid process is what articulates with the squamosal (new hinge for mammalian jaw)
- articulate and the quadrate moved to the middle ear
^^^^^ the critical bones that form the amplification system
- presence of just a single occipital condyle i the dimetrodon vs the paired occipital condyle on the dog

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basal therapsid

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  • larger tempral fonestra – probably for larger jaw muscles
    — increasing level of activity – needing to eat more
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we lack gastralia

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  • more present in basal equlipisaurs
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dicynodont

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  • had skull specialized in herbivery
  • some had cartilagenous maxilla turbinates
  • so important in capturing heat and moistute
  • ossification of the maxilla turbinates only occur later with the mammals
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cynidonts

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  • early ones were sort of dog sized
  • in the mid-triasic they kind of shrunk
  • then they shrunk even more to mouse sized –> leading into mammals
  • had cusped cheek teeth
    -the top teeth work together with the bottom teeth coming together in a certain fashion
    —— for efficiency processing of food material
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late triassic probainognathian

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  • rat sized
  • they had the early form of the double jaw joint
  • started to get a new jaw
  • also had an enlarged infraorbital foramen
    —– allowed the passage of nerve fibers to face
    —– you really only have facial expressions in mammals
    —– serves the communication role
    —– —– nursing —— need facial musculature
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mammaliaformes

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the first known specimen of mammals — morganucodon (gonna go with it being a mammal)
—– had larger brains compared to earlier synapsid
—– have the true dentary jount
—– precise tooth exclusion
—– why is it a mammal
—– —– hair and mammary glang
—– —– problem with fossils ^^^ soft tisue – does not fossilize

not viviparity
- platapuses lay eggs
mammals have the hardarian gland
secretions travel down the nasal lacrimal duct
– mammals with lots of pellage will get these secretions with an oil like quality that they use to treat their pellage
- ergoooo the morganucodon had hair –> had these 2 thins
- you do not find this duct in the more basal species

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features of earliest mammals

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diphyodonty
- 2 teeth generations (ex: baby and adult)
- mammals have precise occlusion of teeth
- mastication
– thoroughly grinding up food
- teeth that suggests insectiverous diet
– suggesting nocturnal and solitary lifestyle

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transition from homodonty to heterodonty

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  • also get interdigitation of ()
  • rows of teeth in the lower jaw are the same distance of the rows of teeth in the upper jaw
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features of earliest mammals: tribosphenic molars

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  • additional cusps
  • important with shearing food matter
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features of earliest mammals – evolution of lactation and suckeling

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  • polyphydonty enables this
  • you can get much more growth with dipholydonty
  • meaning you have to delay the growth of teeth
  • in order to enable diphodonty to give rise to the larger brain and jaw –> lactation needs to occur because they will not be able to chew their food
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lactation must come first

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first before diphiodonty
- aspect of the species but applies to the indivisual
- mammals have diphiodonty
— enables growth of the skull
— upper and lower jaws get bigger and bigger and bigger
— if you are stuck with the teeth you have when your head was little
———- there would be a lot of gaps
- if you were trying to grow your skull and minimuze the number of teeth generations – you needed to be able to eat without your teeth for a little 000 hypothesis for why lactation is what it is

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mammals also evolved a lot of facial muscles

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  • enable many things
  • lot of expression
  • lot of communicative expressions in particluar
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we have hair

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  • with hair comes a lot of oils and glands for coating the hair
18
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lot of derived structures:

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hooves/hairs/claws/nails
- all part of the igumentary

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why did the first mammals have hair

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  • insulation
  • cripsis –> camouflage
  • communication
    —- dogs raise their scruff of their neck
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tactile senations

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cat’s whiskers

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internal anatomy

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mammals have adipose tissue
- use for energy stoage
- tissue that has an extremely high fat content
- also involved in regulating appitite
- primary hornome secreted by adipose tissue (this also is a gland –> leptin)

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leptin

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  • the more adipose tissue you have, the more leptin is secreted
  • gets into the bloodstream and is passively passed through the body
  • when leptin binds to the receptor of the brain, it sends out a satiating feeling
  • tells the body that it doesn’t need to eat anymore
  • lots of obease individuals have something about their leptin levels that is off
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brown fat

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  • found in things like hibernating artic ground squirrels
  • different in that when it is metabolized it doesn’t provide glucose, it provides heat
  • adaptive for infant human who haven’t fully developed thermoregulation yet
  • eurythrocytes lack nuclei
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sensory systmes

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mammals tend to rely more on smell and hearing
- most have a noctural lifestyle
- most primates are dinural

a lot of brain processing is involved with CN 7
- corpus collosum
- homolog to optic tectum
— processes magnetic cues

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cones

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require a much stronger light intensity than the rods

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vision

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loss of color vision when you become nocturnal

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monotremes

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  • weird egg laying mammals
  • adult extant monotremes lack teeth
  • very high altricial young
  • most mammals have an X and a Y to determine sex
    —- monotromes lack this
  • 4 headed penis of echinidia
  • difference in cloaca
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allotheria

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  • more derived than extant
  • had very narrow pelvis to suggest live birth of altricial young
  • interesting pattern of jaw occulusion
  • patterns of toothware indicarted that when the animal closes its jaw, its jaw moves backwards