Impedance matching of the tympanic middle ear occurred very early in amniote evolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Decade Spanning Single Exchange] Reference

Mammary glands evolved in the mammalian lineage after mammals and frogs split from their amniote ancestor.    From Wordnik.com.  [About 'What Darwin Got Wrong'] Reference

Birds are also clearly diapsids and if every living amniote that isnt a mammal is a diapsid then birds are diapsid reptiles too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drawing a Line in the Academic Sand - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Well, I'm supposed to start with a revision of the placodonts and then, "if time allows", to bloat this into an amniote phylogeny.    From Wordnik.com.  [Happy Christmas, from gigantic Spanish sauropods... or, alas, poor ‘Angloposeidon’] Reference

ABSTRACT In this special issue on the Evo-Devo of amniote integuments, Alibardi has discussed the adaptation of the integument to the land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catholic Church Supports Neo-Paleyism? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

A random cell motility gradient downstream of FGF controls elongation of an amniote embryo Nature, 466 7303, 248-252 DOI: 10.1038/nature09151.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Panda's Thumb: August 2010 Archives] Reference

I venture that im not the only one who didnt know the early amniote history, and im certain im not the only one who was puzzled by the Nat geo. cladogram.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report on the 2005 Creation Mega Conference, Part Four - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Primitive reptiles were able to radiate into drier habitats than amphibians because of the amniote egg with a leathery or hard shell, and because of their relatively impermeable skin with scales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adaptations of desert amphibians and reptiles] Reference

It was reasonable to assume that these mechanisms would account for embryo elongation, but the actual processes were unknown before the experiments of Bénazéraf and colleagues "A random cell motility gradient downstream of FGF controls elongation of an amniote embryo," Nature 8 July.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Panda's Thumb: August 2010 Archives] Reference

Our survey seriously undermines the credibility of Haeckel's drawings, which depict not a conserved stage for vertebrates, but a stylised amniote embryo.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

If steroidogenic activity of extraembryonic membranes is evolutionarily conserved, then the endocrine role of the amniote placenta is likely to have evolved initially in an oviparous ancestor.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

We show the presence of steroidogenic enzyme mRNA in the CAM of an oviparous amniote (.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

(2007) The amniote primitive streak is defined by epithelial cell intercalation before gastrulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

While I think it went ok, I hope I didn’t overwhelm my students: the idea for the first teaching session was to quickly run through Palaeozoic and Mesozoic tetrapod history, looking at the major clades, so we dashed through tetrapod origins, lepospondyls, temnospondyls, the living amphibian groups, anthracosaurs, amniote origins, Palaeozoic synapsids, the turtle origins controversy, and diapsid diversity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference