- robust, air-breathing,
respiratory system,
allow amniotes to live on land as true
terrestrial animals.
Amniotes have the
ability to
procreate without water...
- 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)...
-
extinct forms. The
remaining group of
amniotes, the synapsids,
include mammals and
their extinct relatives.
Amniotes include the only
tetrapods that further...
-
gametes was
achieved through the
transition to
internal fertilization.
Among amniotes, the
development of an
erectile ****
occurred independently for mammals...
-
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...
-
fluid is the
protective liquid contained by the
amniotic sac of a
gravid amniote. This
fluid serves as a
cushion for the
growing fetus, but also serves...
- Dvina)
Permian stem-
amniotes consisted of
lepospondyli and batrachosaurs,
according to some phylogenies;
according to others, stem-
amniotes are represented...
-
islands and, in the case of sea turtles, much of the ocean. Like
other amniotes (reptiles, birds, and mammals) they
breathe air and do not lay eggs underwater...
-
consideration in the
phylogeny of
mesosaurs and
other amniotes because the
three major groups of
amniotes -Synapsida, Diapsida, and Anapsida- have been named...
- the
prefix an- to the word
amniote,
which in turn
refers to the amnion, an
extraembryonic membrane present during the
amniotes'
embryonic development which...
