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Deuterostomes
  • Echinoderms
  • Chordates
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"Once again members of the..."
  • Once again members of the deuterostome clade are defined by molecular data.
  • However the deuterostomes for the most part share certain developmental characteristics.
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"The Echinoderms are a relatively..."
  • The Echinoderms are a relatively small group of marine animals.
  • They have “secondary” penta-radial symmetry
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Echinoderms
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Echinoderms
  • Class: Asteroidea - Starfish
  • Class: Opiuroidea - Brittle stars
  • Class: Echinoidea - Sea urchins
  • Class: Crinodea -  Sea lilys
  • Class: Holothuroidea - Sea cucumbers
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Sea cucumbers
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Phylum Chordata
  • Welcome to your Phylum!
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Chordates
  • Characteristics
    • Notochord
    • Dorsal, Hollow Nerve Cord
    • Pharyngeal Slits
    • Muscular Postanal Tail


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"Subphylum Urochordata - Tunicates"
  • Subphylum Urochordata - Tunicates
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"Subphylum Cephalochordata"
  • Subphylum Cephalochordata
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The Amphioxus Song
  • Oh it’s a long way from Amphioxus, it’s a long way to go.
  • It’s a long, long way from Amphioxus to the sweetest galI know.
  • Goodbye fins and gill slits, Hello teeth and hair.
  • Oh it’s a long, long way from Amphioxus, but we came from there.


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Craniates
  • First chordates with a head (cranium)
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Phylum Chordata

Subphylum Vertebrata
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"Hagfishes – Class Myxini"
  • Hagfishes – Class Myxini
  • No jaws or vertebrae
  • Cartilage skeleton
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Lamprey
  • Skeleton of cartilage with no collagen
  • Primitive vertebrae
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"Early vertebrates"
  • Early vertebrates
  • Conodonts
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"Jawless armored vertebrates"
  • Jawless armored vertebrates
  • Ostracoderms
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Eurypterids
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Gnathostomes
  • Jawed fishes - Placoderms
  • Evolution of Jaws and Paired Appendages
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Evolution of Jaws
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Paired Appendages
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Chondrichthyes
  • Cartilaginous skeletons - descended from bony fish ancestors
  • Sharks, Skates and Rays
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Devonian fish adaptive radiation
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Osteichthyes
  • Bony Fishes
  • Ray-Fined Fish
  • (Actinopterygii)
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Invasion of the land
  • Lobe-finned fishes - Sarcopterygii
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Lungfish - Dipnoi
  • Probably lived in temporary freshwater ponds and moved across land from one to another
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Origin of Tetrapods
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Great Moments in Evolution