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FINAL EXAM DINOSAURS Flashcards

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laurasiatheria

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  • 7 extinct orders
  • 1: order chiroptera.. vampire bats
  • 2: order carnivora
  • 3: order perissodactyla
  • 4: order cetartiodactyla
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Order carnivora

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cats, dogs, bears, weasels, skunks, seals, walruses

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order perissodactyla

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  • odd toed hoofed mammal
  • rhinoes, horses, zebras
  • digest cellulose in intestine
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order cetartiodactyla

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  • artiodactyla
  • even toed hoofed mammals
  • camels, pigs, cows, hippos
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devonian period

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  • precursor for all major fish groups present
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late devonian extinction

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  • 80% all marine species extinct
  • hypothesis:
  • asteroid
  • rise of plants/phytoplankton… eutrophication (low O2)
  • volcanic activity
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tetrapod/amphibin origins

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  • association with late devonian extinctions
  • fish to tetrapod
  • evodevo: hox genes + limb development
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transitions needed to make land dwelling tetrapod

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  • fins to limb
  • water to land body and jaw
  • water to air breathing
  • water to air hearing
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kenichthys

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  • early devonian period
  • sarcopterygian
  • external and internal nostrils
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eusthenopteron

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  • middle devonian period
  • sarcopterygian
  • internal nostrils
  • limbs with distinct humeroud, ulna, radius
  • femur, tibia, fibula
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elpistostege

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  • middle devonian period
  • oldest digits
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pandrichthyes

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  • middle devonian period
  • limbs with digits
  • stronger shoulders
  • transitional ear
  • hyomandibula
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tiktaalik

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  • late devonian period
  • fisha pod
  • terrestrial like front limbs
  • flexible neck, hyomandibula, fully free of jaw
  • flexing jaw
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acanthostega

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  • late devonian
  • all limbs and digits well developed
  • hyomandibula fully in ear - stapes
  • aquatic tail
  • no vertebral column arch
  • small lungs and gills
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ichthyostega

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  • late devonian
  • able to walk on land
  • arched back
  • strong ribs
  • small lungs
  • small gills
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emergence of new body plan in carboniferous tetrapods

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  • distinct terrestrial characteristics
  • limbs
  • snout/jaws enlarge
  • fish scales disappear
  • stapes in ear
  • arched back
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carboniferous period

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  • large amphibian abundance and diversity
  • age of amphibians
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gerobatrachus (permian period)

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  • frogamander
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reptilomorphs

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  • carboniferous
  • where amnion allows independence from water reptiles begin to morph
  • doesnt fossilize well
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casineria

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  • early carboniferous
  • amphibian skull
  • reptile limbs
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solenodonsaurus

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  • carboniferous period
  • eggs in terrestrial nests
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synapsida and sauropsida

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  • two reptile groups
  • synapsid:
    1 TF, air movement via diaphragm, alveolar lungs, 2 way air flow
  • sauropsida:
    0-2 TF (anapsida, diapsida)
    air movement via air sac, gizzard, faviolar lungs, 1 way air flow
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oldest sauropsids

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  • hylonomus paleothyris
  • full reptilian bone structure
  • many terrestrial nests
  • anapsids
  • look like modern lizards
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petrolacosaurus

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  • petrolacosaurus:
  • oldest fossil record
  • nocturnal
  • small sharp teeth
  • insects inside them
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permiam triassic extinction event

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  • great dying
  • 90% of all organisms dying
  • volcanic activity… siberian traps…
  • high CO2, CH4 and H2S in atmosphereq
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ichthypterygia, sauropterygia

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  • ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs
  • triassic
  • ichthy: similar body plan and lifestyle as dolphins, viviparous
  • plesio: heavy body, limbs paddle like, long neck, fish eaters
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archosaurs

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  • late permian period
  • ruling reptile
  • large skull fenetrae for large muscle
  • serrated teeth
  • femus trochanter: muscle attachment, indicative of bipedalism
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pterosauria

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  • late triassic
  • winged lizard
  • elongated 4th finger
  • keeled sternum
  • pneumatized bones
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Dinosaurs

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  • ornithischia (bird hip) and Saurischia (reptile hip)
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Ornithischia

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  • medium sized herbivores
  • bipedal herbivores
  • duck billed dinosaurs
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saurischia

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  • sauropods: large herbivores
  • theropods: bipedal carnivores
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Dinosaur extinction when?

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66 mya
cretaceous-paleogene boundary (K-Pg) : the major extinction event, 70% of all plants and animals

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asteroid hypothesis: What caused the extinction?

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  • asteroid
  • Luis and Walter Alvarez… iridium in earth soil, result of asteroid
  • gulf of mexico, evidence of huge wave action
  • chicxulub crater: crater is 110m wide, 12 miles deep
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What killed living things when the asteroid struck?

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  • short term: (s to days)
    earth quakes, global heat pulse, tsunami
  • medium term (m to y)
    debris ejected, caused 90% sun decrease, temp decreased 20 deg C
  • long term: (dec to cen)
    CO2 from limestone, cause greenhouse effect and sulfur
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volcanic activity: Deccan Plateau of India

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  • CO2 increased due to increase in Volcanic activity
  • created the Deccan traps
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Reptile to mammal transition

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  • posture: reptile is sprawled… to upright mammal
  • reduction in lower jaw bone
  • teeth differentiation
  • middle ear: one to 3 bones
  • jaw articulation: quadrate connect to articular bone (reptile)… squamosal connect to dentary (mammal)
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Synapsids

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  • 1 TF
  • makes skull lighter
  • more attachment points
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Earliest synapsids

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  • pelycosaurs
    mammal like: canines, no scales (smooth), eccrine glands
    reptile like: multiple bones in lower jaw, one middle ear bone, jaw articulation, sprawled
  • highly vascularized sails for thermoregulation
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Therapsids

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  • incisors, canines, premolars, molars
  • hair
  • bones: highly vascularized… endothermy
  • erect limb posture, body held high
    allows for avoidance of carriers constraint (squeezing lungs and air back n forth when running)
  • large herbivores and predators
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cynodonts

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  • full teeth differentiation
  • fewer lower jaw bones
  • vibrisse
  • nasal turbinates: structures in nasal passages
  • high diversity
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Mammaliaformes

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  • triassic
  • size reduction
  • morganucodon
  • hadrocodium
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morganucodon

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  • morgie: mouse sized
  • tree climber
  • double jaw articulation:
    -articular- quadrate (reptilian)
    squamosal-dentary (mammalian)
  • teeth growth rings
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hadrocodium

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  • oldest fossil with 3 middle ear bones
  • full mammalian jaw articulation
  • eggs
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Eutherians

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  • Juramaia Sinensis
  • Eumaia
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Juramaia Sinensis

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  • oldest known eutherian
  • mammalian characterstics, NOT placental
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Eumaia

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  • “dawn mother”
  • full mammalian characteristics
  • placenta
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Eutherian Radiation

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  • rapid diversification after K-pg

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