Non-random decay of chordate characters causes bias in fossil interpretation.
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Believe it or not, they belong to the chordate phylum, the same as humans.
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The vertebrates are the only chordate group to exhibit a proper brain.
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And, there was no first human, no first chordate, etc.
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Instead, they are the result of what happens when you fuse an ancient chordate with the ancestor of a sea urchin.
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It does not produce the chordate skeleton.
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This chordate-related article is a stub.
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Lancelets are text book examples of a chordate.
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The vertebrate ancestor no doubt had more arches, as some of their chordate relatives have more than 50 pairs of gills.
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Any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column
Of or relating to or characteristic of the Chordata
Chordates (phylum Chordata) are animals which are either vertebrates or one of several closely related invertebrates. They are united by having, for at least some period of their life cycle, a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail. ...
(Chordates) Animals with spinal cords. This includes all vertebrates (animals with backbones) and a few other animals with spinal cords.
(Chordates) a biological division including chiefly the vertebrates, but embracing also those animals that have a notochord -- an elastic rod dividing the dorsal from the ventral regions.
(chordata) The phylum that includes the deuterostome groups such as vertebrates who all share a structure called the notochord - a long linear structure running the length of the body - at some point in their embryological or adult anatomy.
(Chordata (Phylum)) it is the Type that groups the more evolued organisms. In particular, the subphylum of the Vertebrates, in agreement with the classic theories, is divided in five classes of organisms endowed of a vertebrale column: Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals.
(Chordata) A vertebrate phylum consisting of organisms that possess a notochord at some period during their life.
(Chordata) Organ system, bilateral symmetry, coelom, closed circ. one or no heart, anterior, well developed brain; notochord pharyngeal gill slits, post-anal tail, dorsal nerve cord.