Midterm Review Flashcards by Morgan Folger | Brainscape

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What is covered by the red box?

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Triassic

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What is covered by the red box?

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540 Ma

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Roy Chapman Andrews

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Famous great explorer
Brought back boxes and boxes of fossils from Mongolia

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Georges Cuvier

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Great comparative anatomist
Argue that ancient species have gone extinct

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Novelty of archosaurs?

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Thecodonty
Antorbital fenestra
Mandibular fenestrae

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Novelty of tetrapods?

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Vertebrae with struts
Four limbs with fingers
Robust hips attached to spine
Stapes

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Where do synapsids come from?

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Amniotes

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What is covered by the red box?

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200 Ma

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Novelty of Ornithodira?

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Digitigrade stance
Mesotarsal ankle

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What is covered by the red box?

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540 Ma

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Novelty of osteichthyes?

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Lots of bone, air sacs

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Triassic years?

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250 Ma - 200 Ma

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What are turtles?

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Diapsids

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What three periods is the Mesozoic broken into, in order?

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Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous

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James Hutton

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“Father of Modern Geology”
Argue that Earth is very old
Uniformitarianism
Cross Cutting Relationships
Erosional Contacts

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Cretaceous years?

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145 Ma - 65 Ma

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Charles Darwin

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On the Origin of Species
Natural Selection

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What is covered by the red box?

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65 Ma

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Novelty of amniotes?

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Amniotic egg
Internal fertilization
Waterproof skin
Enlarged lungs

*Better adapted for land

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What is covered by the red box?

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4.5 Ga

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Mesozoic years?

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250 Ma - 65 Ma

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Novelty of Dinosaurs?

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Erect stance and narrow track gait
Opening in hip socket bordered by upper ridge
Femur with inturned head

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What is covered by the red box?

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Mesozoic

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What is covered by the red box?

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Jurassic

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Marie Curie

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Badass
Radioactive decay

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Where do crocodiles and kin come from?

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Archosaurs

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Where do Ray-finned fish come from?

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Osteichthyes

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Where does the Coelacanth come from?

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Flesy-limbed vertebrates

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What is covered by the red box?

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Cenozoic

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What is covered by the red box?

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Paleozoic

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O.C. Marsh and E.D. Cope

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Bone Wars
Led to many discoveries of fossils

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What are lizards and kin?

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Diapsids

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John Ostrom

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-Revive idea that birds are dinosaurs

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What group descended from gnathostomes?

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Sharks and kin

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William Smith

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Faunal Succession
World’s first thorough geological map

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Richard Owen

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-Coined the term Dinosauria

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Novelty of Diapsids?

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Two temporal fenestrae

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Contributions of:

Nicolas Steno

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Argue that fossils once living organisms
Original Horizontality
Lateral Continuity
Superposition

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What is covered by the red box?

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250 Ma

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Paleozoic years?

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540 Ma - 250 Ma

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What are lungfish?

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Fleshy-limbed vertebrates

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Novelty of vertebrates?

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vertebrae

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What is covered by the red box?

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Cretaceous

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What were early tetrapods?

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Amphibians

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What is covered by the red box?

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PreCambrian Era

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-Where do pterosaurs come from?

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Ornithodira

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Novelty of gnathostomes?

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jaws

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Novelty of reptiles?

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B-keratin scales

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Years for the Precambrian?

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4.5 Ga - 540 Ma

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Where do Dinosaurs come from?

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Ornithodira

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Jurassic Years?

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200 Ma - 145 Ma