| 21. | The vertebral transverse processes of mammals are homologous to the cervical ribs of other amniotes.
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| 22. | The mesonephros and metanephros of amniotes are derived from different parts of the anamniote opisthonephros.
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| 23. | Indeed, many modern day amniotes are dependent on moisture to keep their eggs from desiccating.
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| 24. | Biphyletic amphibia and used the name Anthracosauria to describe the labyrinthodont lineage from which amniotes evolved.
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| 25. | An "'anapsid "'is an amniote whose skull does not have paraphyletic.
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| 26. | Reptiliomorphs are all animals sharing a more recent common ancestry with living amniotes than with living amphibians.
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| 27. | Their eggs could survive out of the water, allowing amniotes to branch out into drier environments.
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| 28. | From this point the amniotes spread around the globe, eventually to become the dominant land vertebrates.
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| 29. | The study of Laurin and Reisz ( 1995 ) was the second major phylogenetic analysis of amniotes.
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| 30. | Like many other terrestrial early amniotes, it probably had the diet of insects and smaller animals.
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