Amniota

See also: amniota

Translingual

Etymology

From New Latin amnion (“membrane around the fetus”) +‎ -ota.

Proper noun

Amniota

  1. A taxonomic clade within the clade Reptiliomorpha – the most recent common ancestor of extant mammals and reptiles, and all its descendants; the reptiles, birds and mammals, collectively, all of which have an amnion during development.

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