You find a dead animal on the side of the road and are trying to identify it. After externally observing and dissecting it, you can see that it has four legs with sprawling posture, a long tail, a faveolar lung, a heart with one ventricle and a hemipenes. Based on your observations, which of the following statements below is TRUE? This is a Tuatara This is an amphibian It is impossible to know the group of this animal without seeing the number of temporal fenestrae in the skull This is a synapsid This is a squamate

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