• Derived from neural crest; posterior elements from sclerotome
• Endochondral ossification
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splanchnocranium
• Derived from gill arches
• Neural crest
• Cartilage or bone (endochondral ossification)
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dermatocranium
• Covers other two cranial components
• Neural crest and dermatome
• Dermal bone (intramembranous ossification)
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agnathans
• Lack jaws
• Splanchnocranium supports the pharyngeal basket • jaws arose from one of the anterior pair of gill arches
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Elasobranchs
• Gill arches and jaws develop in series \n • Jaw musculature modified from branchial arch musculature
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**Paleostyly**
(agnathans) no attachment
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**Euautostyly**
(early gnathostomes)
• Mandibular arch attached directly to the skull
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**Amphistyly**
(basal chondrichthyans)
* double attachment * Ligament attaching PQ to skull * Posterior attachment to hyomandibula * Most modern sharks a variant of this
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hyostyly
(derived sharks and actinopterygians)
• Attachment via the hyomandibula only
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craniostyly
(mammals)
* Upper jaw incorporated into braincase * Lower jaw is suspended from the dermal squamosal bone * Low jaw consists entirely of dentary * PQ and Meckel’s cartilage only ossify
at the posterior end * Incus and malleusnd
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splanchnocranium
In mammals, the ___________________ does not contribute to the adult jaws or to their suspension
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hyoid apparatus, styloid, three middle ear bones
(In mammals) Instead splanchnocranium forms
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First amniotes
small lizard-like animals (anapsid)
• Roof of skull had openings for eyes, pineal organ, nostrils
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anapsid
no temporal fenestra
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diapsid
two temporal fenestra
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synapsid
one temporal fenestra
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fenestra
1. cranial kinesis 2. jaw closing muscle origins expand to roof of skull * mammals: differentiation of jaw muscles
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cranial kinesis
ability to move parts of skull relative to other parts
* Two structures combine to form long axis of vertebrates * Notochord * Vertebral column * from scerotome * condense around notochord and DHNC * intersegmental position but myomeric muscles develop w/in segment * allows flexion between vertebrae
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vertebrae, ribs, sternum
3 parts of axial seleton
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notochord, vertebral column
Two structures combine to form long axis of vertebrates
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functions of axial skeleton
• Provides sites for muscle attachment
• Prevents anteroposterior telescoping
• Major role in supporting body weight
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Ribs
* Struts that articulate or fuse with vertebrae
• Provide sites for secure muscle attachment * Help suspend the body * Form a protective case around
the viscera (rib cage) * Sometimes serve as accessory breathing devices
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myosepta
Embryonically, ribs arise from cartilage within the _________
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tetrapod ribs
• Tetrapods retain the dorsal set of these from fishes
• Two articulations in primitive tetrapods = bicipital
• capitulum (ventral)à parapophysis
• ventral process on intracentrum,
• pleurocentrum (diapsids)
• centra (mammals)
• tuberculum (dorsal)à diapophysis (process on neural arch)
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true
attach to sternum • via sternal rib (cartilage)
vertebrosternel
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false
attach to rib
vertebrocostal
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free
attach to nothing
vertebral
floating
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centra structure
Variation in structure of pleurocentrum & intercentrum
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6
**number of 2-Toed Sloth cervical bones**
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9
**number of 3-Toed Sloth cervical bones**
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6
**number of Manatee cervical bones**
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angled zygapophysis
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narrow centrum
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horizontal zygapophysis
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flat/shallow centrum
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origin of paired fins
• We know that paired fins arose in the gnathostomes
• but WHERE did they come from?
• Early fishes would have been unsteady swimmers • Fins initially function as stabilizers
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stabilizers
Fins initially function as ________
• Leads to the evolution of paired fins (and associated girdles)
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basal
Gnathostomes have two types of fins \n • both are derived from a chain of _______ elements
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fin-fold theory
• Proposed independently by Balfour and Thacher
• Paired fins arise within a paired, but continuous set of ventrolateral folds
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pterygiophores
Paired fins arise within a paired, but continuous set of ventrolateral folds (supported by _______________)
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girdles
fusion of basals →_________
• strengthen by dermal bone
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*Haikouichthys*
Early vertebrates had skin folds
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Acanthodians
had paired rows of spines
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iliac portion
dorsal girdle
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pubic portion
**Anteroventral girdle**
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ischiac portion
**Posterioventral girdle**
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cleithrum
usually lost in early amniotes
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crossopterygian fin
In lineage leading to tetrapods: fin develops along axis along posterior lengeth of fin and radial pterygiophores only emerge on anterior side of the axis
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sarcopterygians
shift from tribasic fin to monobasic fin (one basal pterygiophore) (fin attachment is more flexible/maneuverable)
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distal elements (digits)
newly evolved in tetrapods
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numbering schemes
1. digits assigned number from what was ancestrally anterior to posterior
* thumb and hallux are digit 1
* pinky and little toe are digit 5
2. Phalangeal formula: lists number of phalanges in each digit in order from #1-#5
* ancestrally was 2-3-4-5-3
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glenoid
articular facet for humerus
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ilium, ischium, pubis
three distinct bones that fuse together during development to form the acetabulum
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acetabulum
hip socket
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astragalus
formed from consolidation of several tarsals = talus
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olecranon
posterior ulna
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longer olecranon
increased mechanical advantage (recall F in x L in = F out x L out)
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pectoral
* Derived tetrapods * Reduction in dermal elements * ALL loss of cleithrum * SOME lose clavicle and interclavicle * Sacapula and coracoid condence seperately
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pelvic
* Foramen developes between pubic and ischium - increases muscle attachment area * Several lineages show modifications for specific modes of locomotion
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frogs
huge anterior projection from ilium \- muscle attachment for jumping
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polydactyly
increase number of digits
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polyphalangy
increase number of phalanges per digit
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birds
lose two digits and fuse carpals and metacarpals into carpometacarpus
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bats
elongate digits
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pterosaurs
elongate digit 4 and shorted proximal bones
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furcula
wing downstroke pulls _______ apart, but it acts like a spring and recoils, helping to pull wings up for upstroke
more upright posture
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keeled sternum
attachment for flight muscles power wings
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synsacrum
highly fused to stabilize standing
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7
most mammals have __ vertebrae
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atlas
first cervical vertebrae
white
develops only from first intercentrum and neural arch (i.e. it has no pleurocentra)