Hemichordates (graptolites) Flashcards
What is the age range for the Phylum Hemichordate?
Cambrian to recent
What is Phylum Hemichordate united by?
the presence stomochord (convergent with the notochord of chordates) for at
least half their life cycle
How does Hemichordate fall into the metazoans?
Bilaterian - deuterostome
What is the 3 relationship with hemichordates?
Hemichordates
Echinoderms
Chordates
(super phylum)
What can extant hemichordates be divided into?
Pterobranchs
Enteropneusts (acorn worm)
What is an example of a modern pterobranch?
Rhabdopleura
What are the characteristics of Rhabdopleura? (pterobranch)
Colonial organism
Mouth at base of arms
Individual zooids ciliated, tentacle bearing arms
What are the individual zooids like of Rhabdopleura? (pterobranch)
Cephalic shield - with glands secreting zooidal tubes
How do Pterobranchs reproduce?
Initially sexually produced zooid generates a stolon which in turn produces other zooids asexually
What are the different names for the pterobranchs of the recent and Cambrian?
Recent = Rhabdopleura compacta
Cambrian = Rhabdopleura obuti
What are cephalodiscus? (pterobranchs)
Individual zooids which crawl out of the colony and wander onto spines to feed away from low regime of the sea bed
What is the age range of Class Graptolithina?
Cambrian to mid-Carboniferous
What are the characteristics of class Graptolithinia?
Colonial
Rhabdosome
Periderm - scleroproteinaceous skeleton
Ribbon like cortical bandages
How are the cortical bandages produced? (graptolites)
Secreted by zooids
How is graptolithinia usually preserved?
Carbonaceous films