A shared derived character is a characteristic or trait that two lineages share.
For example, amphibians, turtles, lizards, snakes, crocodiles, birds and mammals all have, or historically had, four limbs. ... Four limbs is a shared derived character inherited from a common ancestor that helps set apart this particular clade of vertebrates.
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