Jan 1, 2020 · Many people wonder why I chose such a goofy/strange/dumb name for my herp site. Once you find out what anapsid means, I trust you won't find it so goofy, strange or dumb.

An anapsid is an amniote whose skull lacks one or more skull openings (fenestra, or fossae) near the temples. [1] Traditionally, the Anapsida are considered the most primitive subclass of …

Anapsids, synapsids, and diapsids represent three key groups of amniotes, a class of vertebrates that evolved the amniotic egg around 310 million years ago during the Carboniferous Period. …

Modern and fossil turtles lack temporal fenestrae (“anapsid”), but appear to have secondarily lost temporal fenestrae and thus are now considered nested within Eureptilia.

The geographic origin of Anapsida has not yet been determined because the fossil record of Paleozoic tetrapods is too poor and localized, but the oldest known anapsid comes from the …

Anapsids are a group of reptiles characterized by their lack of temporal fenestrae, which are openings in the skull behind the eyes. This feature distinguishes them from other reptiles like …

anapsid — /euh nap sid/, adj. 1. belonging or pertaining to the Anapsida, a subclass of reptiles, extinct except for the turtles, characterized by having no opening in the temporal region of the …

Subclass Lepidosauria No bipedal specializations; 2 complete temporal openings; complete palate; oviparous; male is without penis.

An anapsid is an amniote whose skull does not have openings on the sides behind the eyes. [1] . This is. A primitive ('basal') condition for early amniotes in the Mississippian (early …

In terms of their known evolutionary history, the Anapsids appeared suddenly during the later part of the early Permian; in the evolutionary stratigraphic paradigm they evolving from …