vertebrata in a sentence
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- He then investigated the rich deposit of fossil vertebrata at Pikermi and brought to light a remarkable mammalian fauna, Miocene in age, and intermediate in its forms between European, Asiatic and African types.
- Taxonomists place lampreys and hagfish in the subphylum Vertebrata of the phylum Chordata, which also includes the invertebrate subphyla Tunicata ( sea-squirts ) and the fish-like Cephalochordata ( lancelets or Amphioxus ).
- "Vertebrata lanosa " ( L . ) T . A . Christensen is a small red alga, commonly found growing in dense tufts on " Ascophyllum " whose rhizoids penetrate the host.
- These include three major volumes : " On the Origin of Genera " ( 1867 ), " The Vertebrata of the Tertiary Formations of the West " ( 1884 ) and " Essays in Evolution ".
- The unique morphological characteristics of lampreys, such as their cartilaginous skeleton, suggest they are the sister taxon ( see cladistics ) of all living jawed vertebrates ( gnathostomes ), and are usually considered the most basal group of the Vertebrata.
- Hagfish are considered members of the subphylum Vertebrata, because they secondarily lost vertebrae; before this event was inferred from molecular and developmental data, the group Craniata was created by Linnaeus ( and is still sometimes used as a strictly morphological descriptor ) to reference hagfish plus vertebrates.
- In June 1878 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 1881 was awarded their Royal Medal " " For his numerous and important contributions to animal morphology; and more especially for his investigations respecting the origin of the urogenital organs and the cerebrospinal nerves of the Vertebrata; and for his work on the development of the Elasmobranch fishes . ""
- In 1832, Meyer issued a work entitled " Palaeologica ", and in course of time he published a series of memoirs on various fossil organic remains : molluscs, crustaceans, fishes and higher vertebrata, including the Triassic predator " Teratosaurus ", the earliest bird " Archaeopteryx lithographica " ( 1861 ), the pterosaur " Rhamphorhynchus ", and the prosauropod dinosaur " Plateosaurus ".