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What is covered by the red box?

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Triassic

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What is covered by the red box?

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540 Ma

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Roy Chapman Andrews

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  • Famous great explorer
  • Brought back boxes and boxes of fossils from Mongolia
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Georges Cuvier

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  • Great comparative anatomist
  • Argue that ancient species have gone extinct
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Novelty of archosaurs?

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  • Thecodonty
  • Antorbital fenestra
  • Mandibular fenestrae
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Novelty of tetrapods?

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  • Vertebrae with struts
  • Four limbs with fingers
  • Robust hips attached to spine
  • Stapes
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Where do synapsids come from?

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Amniotes

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What is covered by the red box?

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200 Ma

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Novelty of Ornithodira?

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  • Digitigrade stance
  • Mesotarsal ankle
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What is covered by the red box?

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540 Ma

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Novelty of osteichthyes?

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Lots of bone, air sacs

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Triassic years?

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250 Ma - 200 Ma

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What are turtles?

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Diapsids

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What three periods is the Mesozoic broken into, in order?

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Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous

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James Hutton

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  • “Father of Modern Geology”
  • Argue that Earth is very old
  • Uniformitarianism
  • Cross Cutting Relationships
  • Erosional Contacts
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Cretaceous years?

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145 Ma - 65 Ma

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Charles Darwin

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  • On the Origin of Species
  • Natural Selection
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What is covered by the red box?

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65 Ma

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Novelty of amniotes?

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  • Amniotic egg
  • Internal fertilization
  • Waterproof skin
  • Enlarged lungs

*Better adapted for land

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What is covered by the red box?

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4.5 Ga

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Mesozoic years?

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250 Ma - 65 Ma

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Novelty of Dinosaurs?

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  • Erect stance and narrow track gait
  • Opening in hip socket bordered by upper ridge
  • Femur with inturned head
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What is covered by the red box?

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What is covered by the red box?

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Marie Curie
- Badass - Radioactive decay
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Where do crocodiles and kin come from?
Archosaurs
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Where do Ray-finned fish come from?
Osteichthyes
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Where does the Coelacanth come from?
Flesy-limbed vertebrates
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What is covered by the red box?
Cenozoic
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What is covered by the red box?
Paleozoic
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O.C. Marsh and E.D. Cope
- Bone Wars - Led to many discoveries of fossils
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What are lizards and kin?
Diapsids
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John Ostrom
-Revive idea that birds are dinosaurs
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What group descended from gnathostomes?
Sharks and kin
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William Smith
- Faunal Succession - World's first thorough geological map
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Richard Owen
-Coined the term Dinosauria
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Novelty of Diapsids?
Two temporal fenestrae
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Contributions of: Nicolas Steno
- Argue that fossils once living organisms - Original Horizontality - Lateral Continuity - Superposition
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What is covered by the red box?
250 Ma
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Paleozoic years?
540 Ma - 250 Ma
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What are lungfish?
Fleshy-limbed vertebrates
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Novelty of vertebrates?
vertebrae
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What is covered by the red box?
Cretaceous
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What were early tetrapods?
Amphibians
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What is covered by the red box?
PreCambrian Era
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-Where do pterosaurs come from?
Ornithodira
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Novelty of gnathostomes?
jaws
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Novelty of reptiles?
B-keratin scales
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Years for the Precambrian?
4.5 Ga - 540 Ma
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Where do Dinosaurs come from?
Ornithodira
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Jurassic Years?
200 Ma - 145 Ma

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