Question

Differentiate the
four class of tetrapoda.

Answer 1

Superclass Tetrapoda - four-limbed vertebrates

• Class Amphibia - amphibians
  • Subclass Ichthyostegalia - early fish-like amphibians-now outside tetrapoda
  • Subclass Anthracosauria - reptile-like amphibians (once thought to be the ancestors of the amniotes)
  • Subclass Temnospondyli - large-headed Paleozoic and Mesozoic amphibians
  • Subclass Lissamphibia - modern amphibians
• Class Sauropsida - reptiles (includes birds)
  • Subclass Diapsida - diapsids, including crocodiles, dinosaurs (includes birds), lizards, snakes and turtles
• Class Synapsida - mammals and their ancestors
  • Subclass Prototheria - monotremes
  • Subclass Allotheria - multituberculates
  • Subclass Theria - live bearing mammals