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Stuart S. Sumida Biology 342 Phylogey of Basal Chordata

Stuart S. Sumida Biology 342 Phylogey of Basal Chordata. FEATURES TRADITIONALLY CONSIDERED TO BE SYNAPOMORPHIES OF C HORDATA: Dorsal Hollow Nerve Cord Notochord Pharyngeal Gill Slits or Pouches Endostyle Post-anal Tail Segmented Body Musculature. More “fish-like” CEPHALOCHORDATA.

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Stuart S. Sumida Biology 342 Phylogey of Basal Chordata

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  1. Stuart S. Sumida Biology 342 Phylogey of Basal Chordata

  2. FEATURES TRADITIONALLY CONSIDERED TO BE SYNAPOMORPHIES OF CHORDATA: • Dorsal Hollow Nerve Cord • Notochord • Pharyngeal Gill Slits or Pouches • Endostyle • Post-anal Tail • Segmented Body Musculature

  3. More “fish-like” CEPHALOCHORDATA

  4. TUNICATE: Metamorphosis from larva to adult

  5. The new larval stage of a urochordate

  6. VERTEBRATA (CRANIATA) • Defining Feature(s) • Neural Crest? • Fully expressed and migratory neural crest • Ectodermal placodes that develop into cranial sensory structures. • Nasal placode • Optic placode • Otic placode

  7. Pikaia is considered by some to the earliest known vertebrate, but some consider it to be a cephalochordate.

  8. Conodonts were long known from only dental apparatus. They are now thought to be primitive vertebrates. The “tooth plates” are made of tissues only known to develop from neural crest, and whole body fossils are now known.

  9. ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESES OF VERTEBRATE ORIGINS – 1 (a minor difference) Alternative hypothesis of closest sister group to Vertebrata wherein Cephalochordata are considered closer than Tunicata (= Urochordata)

  10. ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESES OF VERTEBRATE ORIGINS – 2 (a more significant difference) R. P. S. Jeffries and the “Calcichordata” Placocystites – a “calcichordate”, a group considered by most to be a group of echonidoerms called “mitrates”.

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