-
about evolutionary clades and can be used to
define taxa. However,
plesiomorphic and
symplesiomorphic characteristics cannot. The term symplesiomorphy...
- Other, more technical,
terms for
these two conditions—for example, "
plesiomorphic" and "synapomorphic"—are
frequently encountered; see the
table below...
-
segments and
pairs of appendages.
Based on the
distribution of
shared plesiomorphic features in
extant and
fossil taxa, the last
common ancestor of all...
- analyses, as
phenetic methods do not
distinguish shared ancestral (or
plesiomorphic)
traits from
shared derived (or apomorphic) traits. However, certain...
- Multituberculates. It is
based on a
portion of snout. "Glirodon
retains the
plesiomorphic 'plagiaulacidan' ("Plagiaulacida")
dental formula and
shares with Allodontidae...
-
their bodies and do not go
through a
pupal stage. The
latter trait is
plesiomorphic, however, as it is
found also in
groups such as
Odonata (dragonflies...
- marsupium,
located in the
front of the mother's abdomen. This is the
plesiomorphic condition among viviparous mammals; the
presence of
epipubic bones in...
- Riversleigh. It is the only
member of the
genus Marada. It
exhibits plesiomorphic and
apomorphic features making the
determination of its
taxonomic placement...
- is
usually not bizarre. They
resemble the
Rutelinae in
being fairly plesiomorphic in
outward appearance. Like in many Scarabaeidae,
males have
large fingered...
-
wastebin taxon for
smaller chameleons from sub-Saharan
Africa with
plesiomorphic hemi****es. Alternatively, many of the
present species were reduced...
