PPT-Reptiles: Nonavian Diapsid Amniotes

Justify the statement that the amniotic egg provided solutions that made development apart from external watery environments possible Compare amniote taxonomy before and after the application of cladistic methods. Their thigh bones are almost parallel to the ground They walk and run with a sidetoside motion Dinosaurs on the other hand stand with their legs positioned directly under their bodies A hole in the hip socket permits this upright stance This posture Mass extinctions are global events characterized by unusually high rates of extinction The magnitude of these rates is usu ally unspecified but it is generally significantly higher than the rate of so called background extinctions that is extinc tio 1 3 Dinosaur Trackway Introductory Video. Objective: Students will identify vertebrates and classify some as birds and fish.. Lesson 2.1 God's Design of Vertebrates. Unique. One of a kind. Verterbrate: An animal with a backbone. Maya, Courtney, and Jae-. L. ynn. Characteristics. Reptiles are cold-blooded, vertebrates with scales covering their skin. . They are considered as tetrapod's (with four legs or leg-like appendages) even though legs are absent in some animals, like snakes. . Phylum: . Chordata. . Subphylum:Vertebrata. Order. Testudines. Rhynchocephailia. Squamata. Crocodilia. Common . example. Turtles and tortoises. Tuataras-found only in New Zealand. Lizards, snakes, and worm lizards. 2. Amniotic eggs have . membranes that protect the embryo from . desiccation, cushion the embryo, help with gas exchange, and store waste material.. 3. The amniotic eggs of reptiles and birds also have leathery or hard shells that protect the developing embryo, and a yolk that supplies food to them.. Click Here!. Can any of you . name. these three reptiles?. Objective: Today we are going to learn how to describe three basic characteristics of reptiles. . Click to Check out REPTILES!. Menu. Crocodiles. Chapter 34. “Never grow . a wishbone . where your backbone ought to be” . -Clementine . Paddleford. Origin of . Tetrapods. First . tetrapods. diverged 365 million years ago . (________). ________________________and shallow inland lakes with muddy bottoms likely selected for early . History of Reptiles. Reptiles arose from amphibians. Earliest fossils 359 . m.y.a. Small, four – legged vertebrates w/small teeth. Pangaea. Drier climate. Mass extinction during Paleozoic era. Diversified to fill niches left by extinct species. Fully adapted for life on land. All Amniotes – produce Amniotic Eggs. Dry, Scaly Skin. Ectothermic . More Efficient Circulatory and Respiratory Systems. Cloaca . Except for snakes, Reptiles have Paired limbs, most ending in 5 clawed toes . Shore Birds:. Also known as Waders. Feed on abundance of marine life in the intertidal zone. Size varies from as small as a sparrow to larger than a chicken. Group includes oyster catchers, tattlers, curlews, godwits, turnstones, sandpipers, jacanas, surfbird, phalaropes and inland species such as woodcocks. Reptiles have a well-developed skull, a backbone and tail, four limbs.. Snakes will be limbless and turtles have hard shells that are fused with their vertebrae.. All reptiles have dry, scaly skin, lungs, and eggs on land.. chiridium. = muscular limb with digits. Derived . from Crossopterygian ancestors; . Tetrapods. . first appear in the fossil record toward the end of the Devonian (. ~. 360 mya. ).. First . Tetrapods.