A chordate (/ˈkɔːrdeɪt/ KOR-dayt) is a deuterostomic animal belonging to the phylum Chordata (/kɔːrˈdeɪtə/ kor-DAY-tə). All chordates possess, at some...

The Cambrian chordates are an extinct group of animals belonging to the phylum Chordata that lived during the Cambrian, between 538 and 485 million years...

cord of chordates. Except for the echinoderms, both the hemichordates and the chordates have a thickening of the aorta, homologous to the chordate heart...

urochordates is still sometimes used for these animals. They are the only chordates that have lost their myomeric segmentation, with the possible exception...

consist of all the taxa within the subphylum Vertebrata (/ˌvɜːrtəˈbreɪtə/) (chordates with backbones) and represent the overwhelming majority of the phylum...

notochord. It is a paraphyletic grouping including all animals excluding the chordate subphylum Vertebrata, i.e. vertebrates. Well-known phyla of invertebrates...

Chordate genomics is the study of the evolution of the chordate clade based on a comparison of the genomes of several species within the clade. The field...

This article contains a list of all of the classes and orders that are located in the Phylum Chordata. Order Amphioxiformes Genus Pikaia † Order Enterogona...

anatomy is a potential result of speciation and habitat variation. The five chordate synapomorphies are present in chondrichthyes as follows. The five synapomorphies...

Morris as a chordate, it became "the most famous early chordate fossil", or "famously known as the earliest described Cambrian chordate". It is estimated...