Amniotes is a clade o vertebrates comprisin the reptiles, birds an mammals whilk lay thair eggs on land or kep the fertilised egg within the mither.
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Amniotes
Temporal range: Pennsylvanian–Present,
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(Possible Mississippian record) |
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A baby tortoise emerges frae an amniotic egg. |
Scientific classification |
Kinrick: |
Animalia |
Phylum: |
Chordata |
Supercless: |
Tetrapoda |
Clade: |
Reptiliomorpha |
Clade: |
Amniota Haeckel, 1866 |
Clades |
- †Casineria?
- †Lysorophia?[1]
- †Gymnarthridae?[1]
- †Brachystelechidae?[1]
- †Rhynchonkidae?[1]
- †Ostodolepidae?[1]
- †Hapsidopareiidae?[2]
- †Pantylidae?[2]
- Synapsida
- †Caseasauria
- Eupelycosauria
- Sauropsida
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