Definition of Amniotes. Meaning of Amniotes. Synonyms of Amniotes

- robust, air-breathing, respiratory system, allow amniotes to live on land as true terrestrial animals. Amniotes have the ability to procreate without water...
- extinct forms. The remaining group of amniotes, the synapsids, include mammals and their extinct relatives. Amniotes include the only tetrapods that further...
- Pan-Amniota) is a clade containing the amniotes and those tetrapods that share a more recent common ancestor with amniotes than with living amphibians (lissamphibians)...
- Sauropsida (Gr**** for "lizard faces") is a clade of amniotes, broadly equivalent to the class Reptilia, though typically used in a broader sense to also...
- the prefix an- to the word amniote, which in turn refers to the amnion, an extraembryonic membrane present during the amniotes' embryonic development which...
- Dvina) Permian stem-amniotes consisted of lepospondyli and batrachosaurs, according to some phylogenies; according to others, stem-amniotes are represented...
- Temporal fenestrae are openings in the temporal region of the skull of some amniotes, behind the orbit (eye socket). These openings have historically been used...
- amniotes that lack fur or feathers. At best, the cladists suggest, we could say that the traditional Reptilia are 'non-avian, non-mammalian amniotes'...
- consideration in the phylogeny of mesosaurs and other amniotes because the three major groups of amniotes -Synapsida, Diapsida, and Anapsida- have been named...
- other mammals, birds, and reptiles as amniotes. These extraembryonic membranes that form the embryo have aided amniotes in the transition from aquatic to...