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Evolution of Amniotes

Tempral fenestrae

Tempral fenestrae

The image illustrates the differences in the skulls and temporal fenestrae of anapsids, synapsids, and diapsids. Anapsids have no openings, synapsids have one opening, and diapsids have two openings.

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