Lesson 3- Protochordates and the origin of craniates Flashcards
Protochordate and the origin of craniates possessed this
- bilateral symmetry
- pharyngeal slits
3.notochord
4.dorsal hollow CNS
5.postanal tail
6.endostyle
Vertebrate beginnings/Origin of Craniates among the oldest & best known as ___
ostracoderms
- had bony plates and scales (&, therefore, were easily
fossilized; armored fishes) - jawless vertebrates called ‘armored fishes’
- small bony scales fitted tightly where there are no scales
Origin of Craniates
Before ostracoderms, there a primitive fish that have
many similarities to living hagfishes and
are the oldest vertebrates (530 my) ever
found, these are ___ and ___
Myllokunmingia fengjiaoa and Haikouichthys
ercaicunensis -
The earliest known chordate before vertebrates.
Cathaymyrus diadexus
Researchers think that Cathaymyrus is a
fossil relative of _____
modern lancelets (amphioxus)
He proposed the establishment of Phylum
Chordata in 1874
Ernst Haeckel
Examples of Deuterostoma
- echinodermata
- Hemichordata
- Chordata
Suphylum of Chordata
- Urochordata
- Cephalochordata
Subphylum of Vertebrata
Craniata
Vertebrata is ____
craniates with vertebrae
Lancelet or Amphioxus belong to what subphylum or chordata
Cephalochordata
it is a subset of the larger group of animalia and share common features in development.
Basal Deuterostomes
The starfish, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, sea daisies and crinoids belongs to _____
Echinoderms
The skeleton of echinoderms contain _____
calcium carbonate
- it has presence of a secondary radial
symmetry except in the most basal members
Echinoderms
Acorn worms is an example of _____
hemichordates
_____ marine organisms that live in the mud under shallow waters; fragile when handled; 1.5 m.
-with invertebrate and chordate features
Hemichordates
Bateson added acorn worms to the Phylum Chordata in
1884 because they have:
- a dorsal, hollow nervous system
- gill slits
- a short diverticulum of the gut called the stomochord
marine chordates
Urochordata
In Urochordata the ___ is confined to the locomotor tail of the
free- living larval stage and lost during metamorphosis
into sessile adults.
notochord
They are enclosed within a delicate, nonliving, and colored transparent tunic (Tunicates/ Tunicata).
-filter feeders
-possess pharyngeal slits
Urochordata
➢ sea squirts
➢ solitary or colonial populations
➢ larvae a. tiny (0.5mm – 11mm), have fleeting existence
and do not feed (subsist on nutrients stored in the tissues)
Ascidians
For adult (metamorphosis), in Urochordata, they have the following:
a. adhesive papillae with
sticky secretions
attach the larva
b. notochord is resorbed
c. nervous system –
altered in location and
structure
d. mouth – incurrent
siphon, atriopore –
excurrent siphon,
e. filter feeder
f. with functioning heart
Organism in Subphylum Cephalochordata
Amphioxus
Vertebrate features found in Subphylum Cephalochordata:
➢ notochord
➢ dorsal, hollow nervous system
➢ pharyngeal gill slits
➢ ‘circulatory’ system - vertebrate pattern with ‘pumping
vessels‘ (but no heart)
- all trunk; muscles segments that lie just under the skin
– myomeres extend the entire length of the
organism (locomotor muscle)
Locomotor musculature
integument is a single layer of epidermis and a
thin dermis
-diffusion of oxygen (cutaneous respiration)
Skin
diffusion of oxygen in skin
cutaneous respiration
- opens into the atrium
which surrounds the
pharynx laterally and
ventrally
Pharyngeal slits