Essay The second figure shows a Mesozoic Tetrapod

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Essay The second figure shows a Mesozoic Tetrapod Didelphodon The third shows a partial jaw of Didelphodon Pretend that you found these Wow an entire skeleton congratulations That s an extremely rare find Individual teeth and bits of bone are more common In your essay address the following topics Also find images that support the main evolutionary novelties that you discuss and paste them into your discussion You can use this list as an outline Enlarge the images as necessary to see details Locomotion What are three important novelties related to locomotion that you can clearly see in Didelphodon relative to Ichthyostega How do they differ from the anatomy of Ichthyostega How do they improve locomotion exactly Food processing What is one novelty related to food processing that you can clearly see in Didelphodon relative to Ichthyostega How does it improve food processing and energy management Phylogeny Draw a phylogeny that inlcudes these two organisms Label it with the major groups that these creatures belong to and where the novelties you discussed above originated There should be other branches besides just two for these organisms since Didelphodon is nested much higher in the Tetrapod tree than Ichthyostega Behavior Bevaior itself can t fossilize easily But you can make a guess about how Didelphodon may have behaved based on anatomy Clearly referencing the features you discussed above as evidence hypothesize a little about the behavior of Didelphodon