A craniate is a member of the Craniata (sometimes called the Craniota), a proposed clade of chordate animals with a skull of hard bone or cartilage. Living...

chordates Craniates all have distinct skulls. They include the hagfish, which have no vertebrae. Michael J. Benton commented that "craniates are characterized...

Haikouichthys /ˌhaɪkuˈɪkθɪs/ is an extinct genus of craniate (animals with notochords and distinct heads) that lived 518 million years ago, during the...

reason, the vertebrate subphylum is sometimes referred to as Craniata or "craniates" when discussing morphology. Molecular analysis since 1992 has suggested...

systems have used the term Amphirhina. It is a sister group of the jawless craniates Agnatha. Vertebrate classes The appearance of the early vertebrate jaw...

fossil, Haikouella lanceolata, is interpreted as a chordate and possibly a craniate, as it shows signs of a heart, arteries, gill filaments, a tail, a neural...

the free dictionary. The skull is the bony structure in the head of a craniate. Skull or Skulls may also refer to: Skull Lake, British Columbia, Canada...

because it seems to possess most of the characteristics attributed to craniates. It lacked fins and it had a weakly developed cranium, but it did possess...

Jun-Yuan; Huang, Di-Ying; Li, Chia-Wei (December 1999). "An early Cambrian craniate-like chordate". Nature. 402 (6761): 518–522. doi:10.1038/990080. ISSN 0028-0836...

jaws. Finally, throughout geologic time, invertebrates have remained non-craniate creatures; that is, they never developed a cranium, nerve-chord brain,...

ISBN 978-0-03-008914-5. Butler, AB (2000). "Chordate Evolution and the Origin of Craniates: An Old Brain in a New Head". Anatomical Record. 261 (3): 111–125. doi:10...

chordates developed the skull and the vertebral column, leading to the first craniates and vertebrates. The first fish lineages belong to the Agnatha, or jawless...

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Moreover, some analyses do not regard conodonts as either vertebrates or craniates, because they lack the main characteristics of these groups. More recently...

Cambrian period. The Myllokunmingiids are the earliest known group of craniates. The group contains only three known genera, Haikouichthys, Myllokunmingia...

because it seems to possess most of the characteristics attributed to craniates. It lacked fins and it had a weakly developed cranium, but it did possess...

animals, namely the arthropods, cephalopod molluscs, and vertebrates (craniates). Cnidaria, such as the radially symmetrical Hydrozoa, show some degree...

during the Ordovician period. Arandaspids represent the oldest known craniates, a proposed group of chordates that contain all chordates with a cartilage-derived...

endoskeleton, namely the cranium (hence a synonym word for vertebrates, the craniates) and the spinal canal. The hollow cavity inside the neural tube is filled...

placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal mammal vertebrate, craniate chordate animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna ... At the...

lagerstätte in China. These creatures are the earliest known group of craniates (chordates with a skull of hard bone or cartilage). Currently the group...

Valdiviathyris is a genus of craniate brachiopods that has changed little since the Silurian, from when fossils are known. The extant species V. quenstedti...

Haikouichthys, a jawless fish, is popularized as one of the earliest fishes and probably a basal chordate or a basal craniate....

paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the...

dead colonies to pieces of meat. Tunicates are more closely related to craniates (including hagfish, lampreys, and jawed vertebrates) than to lancelets...

groups are still actively debated. Tardigrade, Lobopodia, (Onychophora) Non-craniate (non-vertebrate) chordates: Cephalochordate, Tunicata and Haikouella. These...

Haikouichthys, a primitive craniate...

(1918) Schilling, N (10 February 2011). "Evolution of the axial system in craniates: morphology and function of the perivertebral musculature". Frontiers...

invertebrates and chordates. Haikouella lanceolata is described to be the earliest craniate-like chordate. This fish-like animal has many similarities to Y. lividum...

environments. There are a couple of examples of osmoconformers that are craniates such as hagfish, skates and sharks. Their body fluid is isosmotic with...