Images for Chapter 9 Tetrapods and Amniotes

Living Amphibians

• Salamander
• Frog
• Phyllobates, poison frog
• Bullfrog

Early Tetrapods

• Relations within tetrapods. Figure 9.1
• Phylogram of tetrapods. Figure 9.2.
• The very early tetrapod Pederpes. National Geographic News.

Ancestors of Living Amphibians? Temnospondyls

• The temnospondyl Parotosaurus . Tree of Life site.
• Doleserpeton
• Drawing of Cacops. Figure 9.4.

Drawing of aistopod. Figure 9.5.

Anthracosaurs

• An early truly terrestrial tetrapod, Discosauriscus
• Seymouria

The Amniotic Egg

• Amniote egg. Tree of Life site.
• Amniotic egg and spacecraft. Figure 9.8.

Parental care in Frogs

Carboniferous Land Ecology

• Carboniferous forest.
• Carboniferous forest.
• Carboniferous forest
• Carboniferous forest.
• Carboniferous coalfields. Figure 10.9.
• Fossil Trees
  • Image of fossil trees at Joggins. Equivalent of Figure 9.12.
  • The formation of the fossil trees at Joggins.
  • Fossil Carboniferous tree stump frpm Germany
  • Fossil tree stump from Scotland
  • Psaronius. Figure 9.13.
  • Neuropteris
  • Lepidodendron bark
  • Fronds of Lepidodendron tree
  • An early conifer

Browse these sites for more images from Mazon Creek

• Carboniferous plants of Illinois' Mazon Creek Formation
• Gallery of Mazon Creek fossils from Yale's Peabody Museum.

Insects

• Giant Carboniferous dragonfly. Figure 9.14.
• Fossil dragonfly from Solnhofen UC Berkeley.
• BROWSE THESE FOR MORE:
  Living and fossil dragonflies
  • Lots of Images of Living Dragonflies Here or
  • Here

The World's Largest Cockroach. BBC News OnLine, 2001.

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