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51 relations: Aquatic animal, Australochelys, Autapomorphy, Beak, Carapace, Carnian, Carnivore, Century, Chinlechelys, Condorchelys, Continent, Cryptodira, Denticle (tooth feature), Digital object identifier, Dinosaur, Eileanchelys, Endochondral ossification, Georg Baur, Germany, Greek language, Greenland, Halberstadt, Helochelydridae, Herbivore, Kallokibotion, Kayentachelys, Late Triassic, Laurasia, Meiolania, Meiolaniidae, Monophyly, Morphology (biology), Nasal cavity, Ninjemys, Niolamia, Odontochelys, Palate, Pantestudines, Pterygoid bone, Rib cage, Synapomorphy and apomorphy, Tübingen, Terrestrial animal, Testudinata, Thailand, Triassic, Trossingen, Tubercle, Turtle, Turtle shell, ..., Vomer. Expand index (1 more) »
Aquatic animal
A aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in the water for most or all of its lifetime.
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Australochelys
Australochelys was a genus of rhaptochelydian turtle.
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Autapomorphy
In phylogenetics, an autapomorphy is a distinctive feature, known as a derived trait, that is unique to a given taxon.
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Beak
The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure of birds that is used for eating and for preening, manipulating objects, killing prey, fighting, probing for food, courtship and feeding young.
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Carapace
A carapace is a dorsal (upper) section of the exoskeleton or shell in a number of animal groups, including arthropods, such as crustaceans and arachnids, as well as vertebrates, such as turtles and tortoises.
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Carnian
The Carnian (less commonly, Karnian) is the lowermost stage of the Upper Triassic series (or earliest age of the Late Triassic epoch).
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Carnivore
A carnivore, meaning "meat eater" (Latin, caro, genitive carnis, meaning "meat" or "flesh" and vorare meaning "to devour"), is an organism that derives its energy and nutrient requirements from a diet consisting mainly or exclusively of animal tissue, whether through predation or scavenging.
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Century
A century (from the Latin centum, meaning one hundred; abbreviated c.) is a period of 100 years.
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Chinlechelys
Chinlechelys (meaning Chinle turtle) is an extinct genus of primitive turtle.
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Condorchelys
Condorchelys was a genus of stem turtle from Middle to Upper Jurassic Cañadon Asfalto Formation of Argentina.
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Continent
A continent is one of several very large landmasses of the world.
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Cryptodira
Cryptodira (hidden neck) is a suborder of Testudines that includes most living tortoises and turtles.
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Denticle (tooth feature)
Denticles, also called serrations, are small bumps on a tooth that serve to give the tooth a serrated edge.
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Digital object identifier
In computing, a Digital Object Identifier or DOI is a persistent identifier or handle used to uniquely identify objects, standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
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Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.
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Eileanchelys
Eileanchelys is an extinct genus of primitive turtle from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) period some 164 million years ago of Britain.
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Endochondral ossification
Endochondral ossification is one of the two essential processes during fetal development of the mammalian skeletal system by which bone tissue is created.
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Georg Baur
Georg Baur (1859–1898) was a vertebrate paleontologist and Neo-Lamarckian who studied reptiles of the Galapagos Islands, particularly the Galápagos tortoises, in the 1890s.
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Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
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Greek language
Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
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Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is an autonomous constituent country within the Kingdom of Denmark between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
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Halberstadt
Halberstadt is a town in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the capital of Harz district.
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Helochelydridae
Helochelydridae is an extinct family of turtles known from fossils found in North America and Europe that have been dated from the Late Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous.
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Herbivore
A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage, for the main component of its diet.
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Kallokibotion
Kallokibotion is an extinct genus of turtle from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian, 70–66 million years ago), known from fossils found in Romania.
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Kayentachelys
Kayentachelys ("Kayenta turtle") is an extinct genus of turtle known only from the "silty facies" of the Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation in northeastern Arizona on the lands of the Navajo Nation.
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Late Triassic
The Late Triassic is the third and final of three epochs of the Triassic Period in the geologic timescale.
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Laurasia
Laurasia was the more northern of two supercontinents (the other being Gondwana) that formed part of the Pangaea supercontinent around (Mya).
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Meiolania
Meiolania ("small roamer") is an extinct genus of basal turtle from the Middle Miocene to Holocene, with the last relict populations at New Caledonia which survived until 3,000 years ago.
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Meiolaniidae
Meiolaniidae is an extinct family of large, possibly herbivorous turtles with heavily armored heads and tails known from South America and most of Oceania.
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Monophyly
In cladistics, a monophyletic group, or clade, is a group of organisms that consists of all the descendants of a common ancestor.
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Morphology (biology)
Morphology is a branch of biology dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.
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Nasal cavity
The nasal cavity (nasal fossa, or nasal passage) is a large air filled space above and behind the nose in the middle of the face.
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Ninjemys
Ninjemys oweni ("Owen's Ninja Turtle") is an extinct large meiolaniid stem-turtle from Pleistocene Queensland (Australia).
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Niolamia
Niolamia is an extinct genus of South American meiolaniid turtle.
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Odontochelys
Odontochelys semitestacea (meaning "toothed turtle with a half-shell") is a Late Triassic relative of turtles.
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Palate
The palate is the roof of the mouth in humans and other mammals.
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Pantestudines
Pantestudines is the group of all tetrapods more closely related to turtles than to any other animals.
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Pterygoid bone
The pterygoid is a paired bone forming part of the palate of many vertebrates, behind the palatine bones.
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Rib cage
The rib cage is an arrangement of bones in the thorax of most vertebrates.
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Synapomorphy and apomorphy
In phylogenetics, apomorphy and synapomorphy refer to derived characters of a clade – characters or traits that are derived from ancestral characters over evolutionary history.
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Tübingen
Tübingen is a traditional university town in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g., cats, ants, spiders), as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water (e.g., fish, lobsters, octopuses), or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats (e.g., frogs, or newts).
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Testudinata
Testudinata is the group of all tetrapods with a true turtle shell.
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.
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Triassic
The Triassic is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.9 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period Mya.
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Trossingen
Trossingen is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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Tubercle
In anatomy, a tubercle is any round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth found on external or internal organs of a plant or an animal.
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Turtle
Turtles are diapsids of the order Testudines (or Chelonii) characterized by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs and acting as a shield.
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Turtle shell
The turtle shell is a highly complicated shield for the ventral and dorsal parts of turtles, tortoises and terrapins (all classified as "turtles" by zoologists), completely enclosing all the vital organs of the turtle and in some cases even the head.
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Vomer
The vomer is one of the unpaired facial bones of the skull.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proganochelys
