Chordates: Amniotes

SLOs

1. Be able to describe the structure of the amniotic egg and its importance in radiations onto land.

2. Be able to discuss how geologic change and events during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic affected the radiation of reptiles and mammals.

3. Be able to discuss the synapomorphies of birds and how their anatomy, physiology, and behaviors contribute to their success.

4. Know the distinguishing features of the mammalian orders Monotremata and Marsupialia as contrasted to eutherian mammals.

5. Know the closest relatives to primates.

Terms

amniote

synapsids, anapsids, and diapsids

extraembryonic tissues: amnion, chorion, allantois, yolk

calcareous

Lepidosaurs

Archosaurs: dinosaurs, crocodiles, and birds

endothermy, ectothermy

Mammals: monotremes, marsupials, eutherians

placenta, marsupium, joey

Class Mammalia, Order Primate

SLOs

1. Be able to classify representatives from lemurs, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes.

2. Know the shared derived characters of primates.

3. Distinguish between prosimians, anthropoids, hominoids, and hominids.

4. Know the shared derived characters of humans, and the best hypothesis for the sequence of developments that led to Homo sapiens.

Terms

opposable thumb

brachiation

arboreal

prosimians, anthropoids, hominoids, hominids

bipedalism

paleoanthropology