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Lesson 9 Flashcards

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crown tetropods

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  • classified as the nearest living ancestor of all living tetropods
  • have fewer than or equal to 5 digits
  • have the presence of an occipital condyle
  • originally – all tetrapods were thought to be carniverous
    if you look at exant lissamphibia –> no adults eat plants
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what is the purpose of an occipital condyle

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like the ball and socket – it enables up and down motion
- aquatic fish do not have this and can’t move their heads up and down

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amniotes

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  • we share a more recent common ancestor with a lizard than has to a salamander
    (amniotic eggs sac)
  • having this amniotic egg stopped the dependance of water for reproduction
  • have waterproof skin
  • find at least 2 sacral divisions for fossil amniotes
  • lateral phalanges of pterigoids
  • an astralagus
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key derivations of amniotes

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  • having an astralagus (ankle joint)
  • having an amniotic sac
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roamers gap

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  • gap in the carboniferous period (gap in tetrapod fossil record)
  • very few terrestial rock outcrops
  • as a result - early tetrapods are not really known
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temnospondyli

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  • range broadly in size from cm to the size of aligators
  • have aquatic larvae
    ^^^ and most were semiaquartic
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early stereosponduli

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  • presence of sturdy zygapopheses
  • interpterygoid vacuity
  • lived in lowland swamps – compared to crocodiles
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8
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importance of sturdy zygapopheses

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greatly resist torsion and other forms of vending

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9
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interpteryoid vacuity

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  • big opening in skull
  • 2 occipital condyles
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10
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disaurophoydia

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  • includes batracia (frogs and salamanders)
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basal amniote skull

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paired dermal bones in skull
- gonna really form the basics for formation of phenestrae
^^^^ which is the hole inside the skull through which muscles pass

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hylonomus

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  • extinct
  • early amniote
  • reveals the 4 regions of vertebral column quite well
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basic amniote character

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  • lateral flange of pterygoid
  • the second vertebra forms a unique vertebra (axis) first one is the atlas
  • ankle mesotarsal joint
  • separation of axial musculator and appendicular musculature
  • at least 2 sacral vertebrae
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  • lateral flange of pterygoid
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  • important origin for muscle
  • for a greater body size – it helps to have a good jaw action for catching prey
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  • the second vertebra forms a unique vertebra (axis) first one is the atlas
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process that articulates (dens) enables site of side to side movement

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ankle mesotarsal joint

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thought to be associated with the new skill of feet and to be used for locomotion
– ^^^ prior — feet and hands were more like holdfass

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17
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albumen (amniotic egg)

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  • water in the sac
  • provides shock absorption
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yolk sac (amniotic egg)

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provides a lot of nutrients and energy and fats
- non amniotic eggs have a sac
- but amniotic eggs have 3 additinal extra-embryonic membranes that funtamentally make it an amniote

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what did these thick extra embryonic membranes do

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they elevated the speed with which metabolic respiration could occur – which allowed for a larger egg – larger hatchling – and ultimately a larger adult

20
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coastal ventilation of the lungs (amniotic egg)

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  • amniotes have evolved this mechanism for bentilatio of lungs
  • makes use of muscles between ribs to change the volume of the inside and pump air in and out
  • much more efficient than buccal pumps of nonamniotes
    ^^ musculature of buccal pumps is not needed – can run while breathing
21
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efficiency of ventilation lungs enabled the evolution of longer necks – PROBLEM

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  • dead air space
  • necks do not have a hgas exchane area and thus it is viewed as ineffecient
  • but because of this coastal ventilation – the inefficiency of long necks is countered
    — neck allows for animals to reach lofty heights, but also provides sapce for the elaboration and branching and nerves extending to the limbs
    ———– dexterity and fine motor movement for limbs
    ———— the capactiy to write —— requires great deal of elabortation of nerve fibers
22
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patterns of amniote temporal fenestra

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  • holes on the side of the skull through which muscles pass — ex — important jaw muscles
  • form foundation
  • hole gets greatly modified, even lost
23
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evolution of fenestra

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  • evolved twice
  • synapses and diapsids are not from an original one whole organism ???
24
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basal turtle

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  • extant turtles have no fenestra
  • there ^^ is discussion over where they belong becasue of their lack of fenestra — but the question was answered —- there were early turtles with a diapsid condition
    ^^^ can call extant turtles anapsids (no hole)
25
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t/f post orbital bar has been lost in mammels

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true

26
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diapsid

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lizards –> lose lower temporal bar
snakes – losed lower and upper temporal bar (lower and upper phenestra merge)
- birds
- extinct dino

27
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synapsid condition

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one hole

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diapsid condition

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2 holes

29
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a flat skull acts as a bellose

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  • flat thing that blows wind
  • does not enable complex jaw movement
30
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range of motion of any muscle is directly proportional to hiw ling that muscle is

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  • would have been selection between tall skull — allowing for longer muscles of jaw motion
    ——- but if it strains the skull too much – its not really able to support the range of motion
    BUT ——— a small hole would have relieved some of that stress ———- providing elasticity
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THEORY of small hole

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originated as a small hole to relieve stress — larger hole for muscles arouse of out that – allowing them to buldge outward and wrap around skull

32
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ankle evolution

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3 tarsals fuse to form astralagus
- forming new joint
- some groups deviate and fully devolve
- food more acting as a lever

33
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more amniotic egg

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  • presence of shell with pores
  • shell doesn’t need to be mineralized
  • a lot have kind of this soft-leather kind of egg
  • enables the developing embryo to bypass that larval stae
  • there are no larval stages in amniotes
  • no gills – exchange gases by diffusion through pores of
34
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aquatic amniotes

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  • usually come ashore to lay eggs
  • or could be viverous
35
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earliest mammals

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thought to be egg legging

36
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all amniotes have

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internal fertilization –> due the presence of the sell
- many have evolved a penis to make this possible

37
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tradeof for gasses passing readuly

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  • not just CO2 and O2 that are passing through
  • microbes also pass through
  • can compromise the life of the embryo
38
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bird and egg susceptibility

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female lays her eggs then the egg is immediately susceptible to the invasion of microbes through pores of the shell
- by incubating –> she raises the temperature to about 39 degress celcius and the microbes die

39
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if the bird lays more than 1 egg

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  • vast majority can only lay 1 per day
  • if ou have a 4 day spread of egg laying – 4 day spread o f hatching
    —– there will be a runt
  • runts cannot compete with the older birds
  • most birds don’t start incubation right away so that way you don’t have a competing older and younger bird situation
40
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TRADEOFF of incubate

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you can incubate early to make sure everyone hatches but there will be a separation of births and most likely a runt, or you can wait to incubate so everyone hatches together (first ones to be born may not hatch)

41
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how many eggs you lay

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  • if you lay 1 – not a problem
  • 2 eggs - one day apart, not gonna be a big deal
    ex: 10 eggs —— tremendous spread of hatching
42
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latitudinal variation

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more affect in the tropics bc of warm climates (not good when it is too warm for incubation)

43
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latitudinal variation of clutch size

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birds of higher latitude lay more eggs –> becasue the microbial threat is not as large

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