Pikaia gracilens is an extinct, primitive chordate animal known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia. Described in 1911 by Charles...
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Pikaia! (ピカイア!) is a Japanese educational anime series produced by NHK Educational. The first season started airing on April 29, 2015 for 13 episodes before...
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Cambrian chordates (section Pikaia gracilens)
between 538 and 485 million years ago. The first Cambrian chordate known is Pikaia gracilens, a lancelet-like animal from the Burgess Shale in British Columbia...
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and Myllokunmingia, also from the Chengjiang fauna, are regarded as fish. Pikaia, discovered much earlier (1911) but from the Mid Cambrian Burgess Shale...
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from the Chengjiang biota, are the earliest bodyfossils of fish, whereas Pikaia, discovered much earlier but from the Mid Cambrian Burgess Shale, is now...
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gnathostomatans a little more confusing, as it was roughly contemporary with Pikaia. As Pikaia did not have gill bars, unlike Branchiostoma, there are two possible...
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Although some paleontologists regard it as an early chordate allied with Pikaia et al., Conway Morris suggested in 1993 that it might be a Cambrian descendant...
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Evolution of fish Fish Timeline of fish evolution Forerunners Basal member †Pikaia Cephalochordate †Cathaymyrus Lancelet Olfactores †Haikouella Tunicate †Myllokunmingiidae...
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stem-chordates, lying outside a clade formed by Yunnanozoon, Cathaymyrus, Pikaia and crown-chordates. The monophyly of Deuterostomia is not strongly evidenced...
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similar morphology Ostracoderm Arandaspis Other basal Cambrian chordates: Pikaia – Cambrian chordate Myllokunmingia – close relative Zhongjianichthys – eel-like...
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