1. BIOL 3300 Vertebrate Zoology: Ectotherms - Herpetology

2. Extant Tetrapod Phylogeny!
You should be able to provide a common name for each group and describe a MAJOR feature of each clade.

3. Extant Tetrapod Phylogeny!
Explain what is meant by…
“… Reptilia and Mammalia are sister lineages among extant amniotes.”
Include terms synapomorphy, plesiomorphy to describe/answer.

4. Tetrapod Phylogeny!
___________and _______________ are more closely related to extant tetrapods than dipnoi etc.
Acanthostega
Tiktaalik
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5. Extant Tetrapod Phylogeny!
Where would they fit in the cladogram?

6. From H2O to Land! What adaptations were necessary?
Many likely evolved while still primarily ___________________

7. What are Lissamphibia features?
Synapomorphies include…

8. What are Lissamphibia features?
Synapomorphies include…

9. What are Lissamphibia features?
Synapomorphies include…

10. What are Lissamphibia features?
Synapomorphies include…

11. What are Lissamphibia features?
Synapomorphies include…

12. What are Lissamphibia features?
Synapomorphies include…
Respond to different frequencies of sound, one > 1 kHz and one < 1 kHz
Compare ear bones and cochlea of humans to amphibians…

13. What are Lissamphibia features?
Synapomorphies include…

14. What are Lissamphibia features?
Synapomorphies include…
Theloderma stellatum, Taylor's Bug-eyed Frog

15. What are Lissamphibia features?
Synapomorphies include…

16. What are Lissamphibia features?
Details from Chpt. 3 (skin)
______________________

17. What are Reptilia features?

18. What are Reptilia features?
Amniote skulls
Stem reptiles lacked temporal fossae (____________________)
Modern reptiles have two fossae (____________________)
Ancestors to mammals have a single fossae (____________________)

19. What are Reptilia features?

20. What are Reptilia features?
What is a turtle?
An ancestral turtle from the Late Triassic of southwestern China
Chun Li, Xiao-Chun Wu, Olivier Rieppel, Li-Ting Wang & Li-Jun Zhao
Nature 456, (27 November 2008)
doi: /nature07533