Cladogram Links - Class Work

Notable Nodes - Cladogram Animals

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Final Product: 

             Cladogram Website

             Cladogram Guide (PDF file, in progress) 

             Panoramic View of Animals

 

Cladogram Links

• What did T. Rex taste like?  An Interactive Site
   

• All in the Family:  Another Interactive Site
   

• AMNH Fossil Halls Cladogram
   

• AMNH:  What is a cladogram?
   

• Introduction to Cladistics
   

• Cladogram:  the Tree of Life
   

• A More Complicated but Thorough Explanation of Cladistics
   

• Tree of Life:  An Online Cladogram of Every Known Life Form!!
   

Class Work (in PDF format)

• Cladogram with Nodes and without Nodes
                                                            as a spiral
                                                            as diagonals
   

• Cladogram Presentation on Tuesday, April 10 from 6-7 pm
   

• Final Assignment:  Overview
                                   Individual Animal Assignment and Organizer
                                   Notable Node Assignment
                                   Extension Assignment
                                   Who gets what assignment?
                                   Rubric
   

• Pre-Fieldwork Worksheet and Node Pre-Fieldwork Worksheet
   

• AMNH Fieldwork Worksheet and Node Fieldwork Worksheet
   

• Contour Line Drawing Worksheet
   

• Cladogram Notes:  Student Notes and Answer Sheet
   

• Cladogram Questions
   

• Cladistics Reading:  Version 1 and Version 2
   

• Cladistics Study Guide and Test:  Version 1 and Version 2
   

Notable Nodes

• Vertebrates:  Vertebral Column and Braincase
   

• Gnathostomes:  Jaws
   

• Tetrapods:  Four Limbs
   

• Amniotes:  Watertight Egg
   

• Sauropsids:  Pair of Openings in the Palate
   

• Dinosaurs:  Hole in the Hip Socket
   

• Saurischians:  Grasping Hand
   

• Theropods:  Three-Toed Foot
   

• Maniraptors:  Pulley-Shaped Wrist Bone
   

• Ornithischians:  Backward-Pointing Protrusion of the Pubis Bone
   

• Thyreophorans:  Bony Body Armor
   

• Ornithopods:  Chewing Teeth
   

• Marginocephalians:  Frill or Shelf at Back of Skull
   

• Synapsids:  Hole Behind the Eye Socket
   

• Mammals:  Three Middle Ear Bones
   

• Placentals:  Placenta
   

• Ungulates:  Hooves
   

Cladogram Animals

Ostracoderm

• Biocrawler
   

Placoderm

• AMNH:  Dunkleostrius
   

• Introduction to the Placoderms
   

• More about Placoderms
   

• Placoderms
   

• BBC Sea Monsters
   

Shark

• Sharks
   

• Sharks
   

• Sharks in the News
   

• BBC Sea Monsters
   

• Awesome Travel Sightings: Sharks
   

Xiphactinus

• AMNH:  Xiphactinus
   

• Oceans of Kansas
   

• BBC Sea Monsters
   

Lungfish

• UCMP
   

• Lungfish.info
   

• What are lungfish?
   

• Dino Fact File
   

Salamander

• San Diego Zoo
   

• Wikipedia
   

Turtle

• AMNH:  Proganochelys
   

• BBC Sea Monsters
   

• Green Sea Turtle
   

Cryptocleidus

• Prehistoric Reptiles: Plesiosaurs
   

• Cryptocleidus Diagram
  
   

Crocodile

• American Crocodile
   

• NOVA Crocodiles
   

Rhamphorhynchus:  NOT a dinosaur!

• Dinosaur Timeline
   

• Walking with Dinosaurs
   

• Rhamphorhynchus
   

Apatosaurus

• AMNH Apatosaurus
   

• From the AMNH:  Scroll down to number 5.
   

• AMNH Video
   

• Apatosaurus
   

Dilophosaurus

• Dilophosaurus Tour
   

• Dinosaur Timeline
   

• Dilophosaurus
   

• Dilophosaurus
   

Tyrannosaurus

• AMNH:  T. Rex
   

• From the AMNH:  Scroll down to number 7.
   

• AMNH Video
   

• Walking with Dinosaurs
   

• T. Rex
   

Struthiomimus

• Struthiomimus
   

• Wikipedia
   

• Kinetosaurs
   

Deinonychus

• AMNH:  Deinonychus
   

• AMNH Video
   

• Deinonychus
   

• Deinonychus
   

• Wikipedia
   

Archaeopteryx

• From the AMNH:  Scroll down to number 8.
   

• Archaeopteryx
   

• Archaeopteryx
   

• UCMP
   

• Wikipedia
   

Seagull

• Seagulls at Wikipedia
   

• Bird Evolution
   

• Are Birds Really Dinosaurs?
   

Stegosaurus

• AMNH:  Stegosaurus
   

• AMNH Video
   

• Walking with Dinosaurs
   

• Stegosaurus
   

• Stegosaurus
   

Shamosaurus

• Shamosaurus Drawing
   

• Wikipedia
   

• Ankylosaurs at Tree of Life
   

Sauropelta

• Wikipedia
   

• Sauropelta
   

• Sauropelta
   

Saurolophus

• Saurolophus Diagram
   

• Saurolophus Fact Sheet
   

• Saurolophus
   

Corythosaurus

• AMNH Video:  Look for "Duckbilled Dinosaurs"
   

• Corythosaurus
   

• Corythosaurus Diagram
   

• Wikipedia
   

• Corythosaurus
   

• World of Corythosaurus
   

Stegoceras

• Stegoceras Diagram
   

• Stegoceras
   

• Wikipedia
   

• Stegoceras
   

Psittacosaurus

• Psittacosaurus "Parrot Lizard"
   

• The Big Zoo
   

• Psittacosaurus
   

• Chinese Dinosaurs
   

Protoceratops

• AMNH:  Protoceratops
   

• AMNH Video
   

• Protoceratops
   

• Protoceratops Diagram
   

• Life and Death of Protoceratops
   

Triceratops

• From the AMNH:  Scroll down to number 14.
   

• AMNH Video:  Look for "Chewing Teeth"
   

• Triceratops
   

• Triceratops
   

Dimetrodon

• AMNH:  Dimetrodon
   

• AMNH Video
   

• Dinosaur Timeline
   

• Dimetrodon
   

• Wikipedia
   

• The Big Zoo
   

Thylacosmilus

• Paleocraft
   

• Wikipedia
   

Anteater

• The Online Anteater
   

• Wikipedia
   

• Giant Anteater
   

• Anteater Diagram
   

Rabbit

• Some Interesting Facts About Rabbits
   

• Rabbit Facts
   

• Interesting Rabbit Facts
   

Bat

• Bats!  Why Should You Care?
   

• Wikipedia
   

• Natural History of Bats
   

Lemur

• AMNH:  Notharctus
   

• Lemurs
   

• Ring-Tailed Lemurs
   

• Lemurs and their Evolution
   

• Lemur Logic
   

• Primates on Wikipedia
   

Whale

• BBC Sea Monsters
   

• Wikipedia
   

• Whale Basics
   

• Cetacean (Whale) Info
   

• Whale Evolution
   

Horse

• AMNH Video
   

• Wikipedia
   

• Nature:  Horses
   

Mammoth

• AMNH:  Mammuthus
   

• AMNH Video
   

• Mammoth
   

• Wooly Mammoth--Interactive!
   

• Wikipedia
   

Hylochoerus meinertzhageni

• Animal Diversity Web
   

• Giant Forest Hog
   

Irish Elk

• AMNH Video
   

• Megaloceros
   

• Paleocraft
   

• The Case of the Irish Elk