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1
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Anthracosaurs

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mostly adapted for life in the water. Long snouted and long bodied predators.
Had jaws designed for slamming shut on prey. (Crocodile like fish eaters)

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Amniotes

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These were mammals reptiles and birds.

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Temnospondyls

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ancestors of amphibians. They came before living amphibians. Largest and most divrse group of Carboniferous tetrapods.
Large and heavy bones for its size.

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Stem group

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a group that is composed of all the taxa that are more closely related to the living members of the group than the living members of other groups.

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Allantois

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Stores the embryos waste when it is in the egg

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Yolk sac

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contains the embryos food supply

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Chorion

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coats the inside of the shell. Helps keep eggs contents together and allows gas exchange.

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Embryo

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The organism inside the egg

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Outer Shell

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This keeps the embryo from drying out while allowing oxygen in

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Crown Group

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a group that is composed of all the descendants of the last common ancestor of the living members of the group.

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Seymouria

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One of the few anthracosaurs well adapted for terrestrial life.

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Erypos

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A Permian temnospondyl about 6 ft long. These are massively built. Large powerful jaws. Big predator of this era

13
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In what environment did the first egg most likely evolve?

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In wet enviornments

14
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Why would animals begin to move onto the land?

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Because predators began coming to the water? They would lay their eggs in flourishing plant life that provided damp groups so their eggs would not dry out.

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Anapsids

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know the head

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Synapsids

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know the head. Pelycosaurs, Therapsids, mammals

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Diapsids

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know the head. Dinos, Pterosaurs, Reptiles, Birds

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Petrolacosaurus

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Earliest well known diapsid. Appears in the late carboniferous

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Pelycosaurs

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These are the animals where all of their power came from their back two legs. (Forklift example)

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Ophiacodont

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This is a fish-eating Pelycosaur. They have long snouts w/pointed teeth.

21
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Sphenacodonts

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Pelycosaur. They have long spines and single pairs of extra large on their lower jaws. Specialized on land.

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Caseids

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Have small heads and large barrel shaped bodies capable of holding large volumes of low calorie food. Large nostrils

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Edaphosaurs

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About 3 meters long and weighs over 600 pounds. Similar to the Caseid except it has a sail

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Therapsids

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Short stocky bodies with small tails. This helps adapt to thermoregulation.

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Dinocephalians

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First abundant therapsids They are much faster than pelycosaurs.

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Dicynodonts

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These were dominant late Permian creatures. Short snouts, No chewing teeth. Jaw point was weak. Their skull was boxlike.

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Gorgonopsians

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Ferocious appearance. They were carnivores that specialized on large prey. Short snout but deep to hold the teeth.

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Cynodonts

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Mammal like with dog teeth.. A type of Therapsid

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Dimetrodon

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The best know sphenacodont.

30
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What type of locomotion was present in Pelycosaurs?

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They walked with their back legs

31
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How did caseid Pelycosaurs most likely process their food?

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They had powerful digestive enzymes to help break down plant cellulose

32
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What features suggest that Sphenacodonts hunted terrestrial prey?

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They had a narrow body and long legs

33
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What are the best explanations for why Dimetrodon had a “sail”?

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For appearance and thermoregulation

34
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Mesozoic Era

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Consisted of 3 time periods.
Triassic: 251-200 MA
Jurassic: 200-145 MA
Cretaceous 145-65 MA

35
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Which group of tetrapods recoverd the quickest from the Permo-Triassic extinction?

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synapsids bounced back the quickest

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Rhynchosaurs

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Plant-eating archosauromorphs. They are pig sized animals w hooked snouts and powerful cutting beak.

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Carrier’s Constraints

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This states that animals like lizards cannot run and breathe at the same time due to their awkward run. So they need to stop to breathe.

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Phytosaurs

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Crocodile like archosaurs. Nostrils located between their eyes. Measured up to 20 feet long. (Late Triassic)

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Aetosaurs

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Lived in Triassic only. Planting eating archosaurs w/upturned snouts and armor covered bodies.

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Ornithosuchids

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Carnivors with relatively short forelimbs and short lower jaws.

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Rauisuchians

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Large carnivours during the Triassic. They were THE most feared predator of that Era

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Silesaurus

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almost a dinosaur. late Triassic. small herbivore with a beak for cropping vegetables.

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Rauisuchians hip structures

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Pillar erect (Pillars) Bad guy of his era

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Solving carriers constraint: Lizards, Eryops, Pelyocsaurs, Mammals?

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Lizards: short bursts, stand still to breathe
Eryops: powerful tail, seperates breathing from locomotion
Pelycosaurs: stiffend backbone, less agile
Mammals: upright stance and diaphragm

45
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Saurischians hip shape

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upside down v

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Ornithischians hip shape

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backwards C

47
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Stegosaurs and Ankylosaurs

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Came from Ornithiscia and then Thyreophora

48
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What animals were Theropods?

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Spinosaurs, T rex, corlophysoids (bi-pedal and ate meat most of them)

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Acetabulum

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part of the hip

50
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Ischium

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part of the hip

51
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Ornithopods

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herbivores. The most successful group of herbivores in cretaceous period

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Pachycephalosaurs

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Known for having a large bony dome on the top of its head. bi pedal stance. More related to the ceratopsian

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Theropods

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A group that included a lot of carnivours dinosaurs. Come from the saurnican group. Meat eating

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Megalosaurus`]

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large carnivore in Jurassic. A theropod

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Oviraptor

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It is in the Coelursurs group. Was very bird like

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Thagomizer

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This is the Spikes that stegosaurs has to defend its self

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Pubis

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Type of bone in the hip

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Anklyosaurs

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Ornithischians –> Thyreophora; “shield”; spiny triangle projections off of back; were herbivores and lived in Cretaceous; had sinuses for breahting

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Iguanodonts

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A duck built beak. One of the first groups of dinosaurs to be found

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Massospondylus

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is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur

61
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Spinosaurs

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Among the largest known of all living dinosaurs. It was a theropod. Skull was long and narrow. Formed a sail like structure

62
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What are the two major groups of dinosaurs?

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The ornithischians and Saurischians

63
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What techniques did dinosaurs use for digesting vegetation

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More developed dinosaurs used stone in their stomachs called gastroliths

64
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What mode of life did the sauropodomorphs and sauropods have?

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Herbivores with long necks

65
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What is the mode of life for all of the Ornithischians?

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Herbivores- fed on low cal vegetation so they were medium-sized`

66
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Therapsid, Pelyosaurs, archoDUDe, what order?

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Pely, Therapsid, Arch