Quiz 2 - Deuterstomes Flashcards
What is the earliest fossil of exhinoderms and deuterstomes found in the ediacaran
Arkarua
What dominated the ediacaran fauna? What about the cambrian?
Sponges and diploblasts
Cambrian - arthropods
What is the first accepted deuterstome fossil
Vetulicolians
- segmentation, bipartite, gill slits
Homalozoans were early deuters .. in the mid cambrian and devonian - they had…
Gill slits, post anal tail, lacked radial symmetry
What were the deuterstomes close to hemichordates with a bipartite body, and segmented tail?
Velulocystida
What were similar to the velulocystids (close to hemichordates)?
Stylophorans
What were the two interpretations of early echinoderms
Enchino w early feeding arm
Or
Echino pre-radial w hemichordate stalk
The yanjiahella was found between the….
Echino and hemichordate
What was the earliest accepted hemichordate from the lower cambrian
Yunnanozoon
What was the fossil with a notochord and segmented musculature?
Pikaia
What was the chordate fossil that lacked a cranium?
Haikouella
What belongs to the ambulacraria?
Echinoderm
Hemichordate
What phyla of ambulacraria are exclusively marine, benthic, macroscopic?
Echinoderms
What is different between the forms of paleozoic echinos and modern echinos?
Paleo - sessile
Modern - motile
What is the most ancient class of echinos
Crinoidea
Sea lillies and sea feathers
Describe the sea lillies and sea feathers… what class? Where are they found? How to they use their tube feet?
Crinoidea - ancient class
All benthic
Tube feed for suspension feeding
What class do sea stars belong to
Asteroidea
What is benthic, found at all depths, pentaradial, predatory and scavenger?
Asteroidea - sea stars
What class do brittle stars belong to?
Ophiuroidea
What species are found in class echinoidea?
Sea urchins and sand dollars
For sea urchins and sand $, what gives them their pentaradial symmetry
Fused skeletal ossicles
What is the regular form of echinoidieans?
Sea urchins
Long movable spines
Move w tube feet + spines
Pedicellariae for cleaning and defense
What is the irregular form of echinoidieans?
Sand $ form
Short spines for locomotion + free sediment, secondary bilateral symmetry for digging and burrowing
What class are sea cucumbers in?
Holothuroidea
How did sea cucumbers get bilateral symmetry
Secondarily
How to cucumbers eat
Suspension feed / deposit feed using tentacles + mucus