I know that mammals decended from synapsids and reptiles are from sauropsids and that both of these came from amniotes. But it is popularly agreed that early amniotes were cold blooded, egg laying, scaly animals. So why can't amniotes=reptiles? This makes the taxonomy of everything so much more cleaner and simpler. I literally don't get why this shouldn't be. We agree that all tetrapods are "fish" and changed the books and material to support these claims. We changed the books that birds are essentially "avian therapodal dinos" we even changed bats from being related to rodents to ungulates instead, but FOR SOME REASON, changing amniotes into reptiles is off the table! I know this is the wrong place to post it, but genuinely why aren't amniote ancestors considered reptiles and hence mammals a decendent of reptiles. I am just a college kid with an interest in science and happily willing to educate myself but it just seems much cleaner and easier to do this.…