Chordata -

Chordata - chordata An extensive vertebrate fossil record begins about 400 million years ago Embryological evidence places the phylum Chordata within the chordata Chordata Haeckel, 1874 Abstract A chordate () is an animal of the phylum Chordata () All chordates possess five synapomorphies, or primary characteristics,

chordata Phylum: Chordata General characteristics: All animals in the phylum Chordata possess four anatomical features at some point in their lifecycle Those

chordata Chordata are bilaterally symmetric, deuterostome coelomates, and the vertebrate The Chordata is the animal phylum with which everyone is most intimately familiar, since it includes humans and other vertebrates However, not all chordates