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Chordata Bateson, 1885 “animals with notochords”







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Common Names


Chordate

 

Latin Synonyms


 

 

Linnaean Rank


Phylum

 

Ancestral Phylogeny and Taxonomy


 

Eumetazoa Cnidaria
Ctenophora
Bilateria Protostomia Ecdysozoa
Lophotrochozoa
Deuterostomia Pterobranchia
Echinodermata
Cyrtotreta Enteropneusta
Chordata

 

Explanation of phylogenetic trees

 

 

 

Lineage

Terrabiota, Cytota, Neomura, Eukaryota, Unikonta, Opisthokonta, Animalia, Metazoa, Eumetazoa, Bilateria, Deuterostomia, Cyrtotreta

 

Descendant Phylogeny and Taxonomy


 

Chordata Urochordata
Notochordata Cephalochordata
Vertebrata "†Conodonts"
"Agnathans"
Gnathostomata Placodermi
Chondrichthyes
Teleostomi

 

Explanation of phylogenetic trees

 

 

 

Morphology


 

 

Distribution


Worldwide

 

Ecology


 

 

Ethology


 

 

Evolution


 

 

Development


 

 

Ethnobiology


 

 

Population


 

 

Notes and Comments


 

 

References


Literature

Carroll, R.H. 1988.  Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.  W.H. Freeman & Co. New York. 

 

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