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Phylogeny of Stegocephalians
Stegocephalians are tetrapods with digits rather than fins. Michael Laurin explores the relationship between the extant and the extinct members of this group.
http://tolweb.org/articles/?article_id=467
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Life History of Stegocephalians
Michael Laurin outlines the life history of tetrapods and extinct terrestrial vertebrates.
http://tolweb.org/notes/?note_id=468
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Breathing in Stegocephalians
Most tetrapods breathe with the lungs that they inherited from their ancestors such as the coelacanth and lungfishes and this is probably also true of extinct groups of stegocephalians.
http://tolweb.org/notes/?note_id=469
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Anatomical Terms of Location
Article from Wikipedia describing the complex terminology necessary to be used when describing the anatomy of animals in order to avoid confusion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical_terms_of_location
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The Vertebrate: Glossary
Provides a comprehensive list of definitions of the technical terms likely to be met when studying the vertrebates.
http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Lists/Glossary/Glossary.html
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Bone
Article from Wikipedia describing the characteristics, functions and types of bone and how bone is formed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone
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Skulls: Structure and Function
Though primarily designed to protect the brain, the architecture of an animal’s skull can help scientists to deduce many of its dietary and social patterns.
http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/skulls/structure_and_function.html
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Biological Diversity: Animals
Outlines the evolutionary history of animal groups from the simple coelomates to the chordates and the various vertebrate classes, with diagrams and photographs.
http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookDiversity_9.html
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Vertebrate Zoology
Lecture notes on the characteristics of the Phylum Chordata and the further characteristics of the classes of animals in the Subphylum Vertebrata.
http://www.ossm.edu/biology/vzln.htm
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Respiratory System
Notes on external and internal respiration, ventilation, aquatic and aerial gas exchange in all classes of vertebrate.
http://www.uta.edu/biology/2458lab/Exercise 36 Anatomy of the Respiratory System.pdf
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