By: Cheridan Collado Rio Gonzales David Ramos Michael Wong

L. reptilia = creeping include turtles, crocodiles,

lizards, snakes, and tuatarans.

General Characteristics

 cold-blooded (ectothermic) aquatic or terrestrial

tetrapods; naked, scaly, or with bony plates; breathing exclusively by lungs; bear their young in eggs, which are protected by an amniotic membrane; have a 3 or 4-chambered heart; have spinal columns and a strong skeletal system with a rib cage;

 Class Reptilia Subclass Anapsida Order Cotylosauria* Order Chelonia Subclass Ichthyopterygia Order Ichthyosauria* Subclass Synaptosuria Order Sauropterygia* Subclass Lepidosauria Order Eosuchia* Order Rhynchocephalia Order Squamata

Suborder Laccertilia

Suborder Ophidia
Subclass Archsauria Order Thecodontia* Order Crocodilia Order Pterosauria* Order Saurischia* Order Ornithischia*

Subclass Synapsida
Order Pelycosauria* Order Therapsida*

 Skull is completely roofed without temporal vacuities

Order Cotlyosauria - Extinct - Play an important role in linking the amphibians with the reptiles

 the turtles

exoskeleton of bony dermal plates:

a. carapace- dorsal b. plastron- ventral jaws that have no teeth and are incased in horny shields.

 Philippine forest turtle

Distinguished by its gingko shaped scutes and its band

behind its ears. Critically endangered

 Extinct Giant marine reptiles

 Skull is diapsid with two lateral temporal vacuities or descended from this type ; skin with horny scales

Order Eosuchia - Extinct - Primitive diapsid reptiles

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 the tuataras

only one living genus (Sphenodon) with two living

species endemic to New Zealand long-tailed lizard-like with weak limbs teeth fused to jaw

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 the lizards

presence of limb girdles

skull with one upper temporal vacuity mandibular symphysis

Brookesia micra

 Butikaw

Vegetarian

 the snakes

no limbs and limb girdles

no temporal vacuities and mandibular symphysis. Naja philippinensis;

 Skull diapsid with two temporal openings; tending to bipedal gait with associated changes; also includes flying forms
Order Thecodontia
stem archosaurs extinct teeth are set in deep pockets

 the crocodiles, alligators, caimans, gavials

aquatic or amphibious with bony plates underneath

horny skin thickenings formation of secondary palate displaces internal nares far posteriorly teeth in sockets ribs double-headed abdominal ribs present heart with two ventricles

 Critically endangered

Rarest croc of all

Described in 1935 by Karl Schmidt; 1989 Hall provided

evidence that they are endemic to the Philippines

 extinct

 With a single

(lower) lateral temporal vacuity; important as showing gradations of skeletal structures in the mammalian direction
Orders Pelycosauria, Therapsida extinct

Therapsidas lead to mammals

 Hyman; Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy

Campbell; Biology
Philippine Crocodile Crocodylus mindorensis; Merlijn

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