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Amniota
Temporal range: Carboniferous (Middle Mississippian) to Recent
Tortoise-Hatchling.jpg
A baby tortoise leaves its amniotic egg.
Scientific classification e
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Clade:Reptiliomorpha
Clade:Amniota
Haeckel, 1866
Living subgroups

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The amniotes are a taxonomic group of animals: all the tetrapods except the amphibians.

They are the land vertebrates which lay cleidoic eggs.

Two super-groups make up the amniotes: the Synapsida (Pelycosaurs, Theriodonts and mammals) and the Sauropsida (all reptiles, including dinosaurs and birds).

The embryos of amniotes are either laid as eggs or develop in the female. These embyros are protected by several membranes, and have a much larger food supply than amphibian eggs.

The 'invention' of the cleidoic egg, and its embryonic membranes, is the main reason why the eggs of an amniote do not need to be laid in water.

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