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Amniote
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Ciro Santilli
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Updated
2025-04-24
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Created
1970-01-01
Name
origin:
amnion
,
a
pellicle that covers embryos of both
eggs
and also during
pregnancy
.
Includes:
sauropsida
:
reptiles
and
birds
, which really are
reptiles
mammals
, or if you want to include
a
bunch
of
extinct
non-
reptile
mammal
ancestors,
synapsids
.
Does not include
amphibians
. If you include them, you have the
tetrapods
.
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