Pharungeal Gill Slits
Lost in living echinoderms, covered in most fish, highly adapted in tetrapods
Notochord (Chordata)
Postnatal tail - Chordata
Paddle
Dorsal Hollow Nerve Cord (DHNC)
Vs. ventral solid nerve cord
Endostyle (thyroid) - Chordata
Metabolic control
Cephalochordata
myomeres
muscle bands
myosepta
connective tissue between muscles
Cephalochordata
Urochordata
Asicidiacea
Urochordata Asicidiacea
Ascidian tadpole
larva with all present
metaporphosis
absorb tail, notochord, and DHNC
Early Vertebrates
- Agnatha (w/o jaws) - Paraphyletic
- Probable from something like Haikouella 530MYA
- 3cm long
- Had brain, but no skull
- Haikouchthys - had skull (craniata)
Haikouichthys
Craniata
cyclostomata
Living Jawless craniates
- Myxini
- Pteromyzontiformes
Myxini - Hagfishes
Petromyzontida - Lampreys
condota
Pteraspidomorphi - Ostracoderms (bony plated skin)
Osteostraci - ostracoderms
Gnathostomata
Gnathostomata characteristics
Jaws - allowed access ot larger and more varied prey
- evolved from gill arches
paired fins
- allowed greater stability and ability to use water
- better development than in osteostracans