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A chordate ( / ˈkɔːrdeɪt / KOR-dayt) is a deuterostomic animal belonging to the phylum Chordata ( / kɔːrˈdeɪtə / kor-DAY-tə ). All chordates possess, at some point during their larval or adult stages, five distinctive physical characteristics ( synapomorphies) that distinguish them from other taxa.
Chordates, phylum Chordata, are a phylum of animals which have a notochord. The group includes vertebrates, with some closely related invertebrates . Classaxonomy. Phylum Chordata. Tunicata – (tunicates, formerly Urochordata; 3,000 species) † Vetulicolia (8 Cambrian species of fossil) Cephalochordata – (lancelets, 30 species)
Mar 29, 2024 · chordate, any member of the phylum Chordata, which includes the vertebrates (subphylum Vertebrata), the most highly evolved animals, as well as two other subphyla—the tunicates (subphylum Tunicata) and cephalochordates (subphylum Cephalochordata).
The Cambrian chordates are an extinct group of animals belonging to the phylum Chordata that lived during the Cambrian, between 538 and 485 million years ago. The first Cambrian chordate known is Pikaia gracilens, a lancelet -like animal from the Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada.
Characteristics of Chordata. Animals in the phylum Chordata share five key characteristics that appear at some stage during their development: a notochord, a dorsal hollow (tubular) nerve cord, pharyngeal gill arches or slits, a post-anal tail, and an endostyle/thyroid gland (Figure 29.3). In some groups, some of these key characteristics are ...
This article contains a list of all of the classes and orders that are located in the Phylum Chordata.
The Chordata is the animal phylum with which everyone is most intimately familiar, since it includes humans and other vertebrates . However, not all chordates are vertebrates. All chordates have the following features at some point in their life (in the case of humans and many other vertebrates, these features may only be present in the embryo ...
