Reptiles Quiz Flashcards
Characteristics of Amniota
Amniotic eggs
Keratininized skin
Negative pressure ventalation through diaphram
What group comes off o synapsid?
Mammalia
Characteristics of Rhyncocephalia
Spiney Head
Characteristic of Synapsid
Temporal Skull Opening
Characteristics of Lepidosauria?
Overlapping scales
Molting Reptiles
What two groups come out of Lepidosauria?
Squamata
Rhynoccephalia
What are the characteristics of Psedosuchia?
False crocodiles
What two groups come out of Archosauria?
Dinosauria
Psedosuchia
Characteristics of Archosauria?
Socketed cone shaped teeth
4 chambered heart
Characteristic of Anapsid
No cranial opening
What group comes off of Rhyncocephalia?
Tuatara (3rd eye on head)
Allatonis
Metabolic waste storage
eventually it is absorbs and becomes urinary bladder
Amnion fluid
cushions the yolk from vibrations and heat, PH, and salt (homeostatisis)
Yolk
nutrients source
creates clorestoral
Amnionic memberane
Lets oxygen in and CO2 out
Blocks moisture