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    The document discusses the early beginnings of vertebrates. It describes ostracoderms as among the oldest known jawless fishes that lived from the late Cambrian to the Devonian period and had bony plates and scales. It also mentions the primitive fish Myllokunmingia fengjiaoa and Haikouichthys ercaicunensis that lived before ostracoderms and are considered the oldest known vertebrates. Additionally, it notes that Cathaymyrus diadexus, at 535 million years old, is considered the earliest known chordate even though it was originally identified as a fossilized eel.

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    COMPARATIVE

    VERTEBRATE
    ANATOMY
    Lecture 3 VERTEBRATE BEGINNINGS

    VERTEBRATE BEGINNINGS

    Ostracoderms

    Among the oldest & best


    known
    fishes that occurred in the late
    Cambrian period (see The
    Cambrian Explosion) through
    the Devonian (about 400 - 525
    million years before present)
    had bony plates and scales (&,
    therefore, were easily
    fossilized) jawless vertebrates
    called 'armored fishes'

    VERTEBRATE BEGINNINGS

    Before ostracoderms?

    Myllokunmingia fengjiaoa & Haikouichthys


    ercaicunensis

    primitive fish that have many similarities to


    living hagfishes and are the oldest vertebrates
    ever found.

    Myllokunmingia fengjiaoa

    VERTEBRATE BEGINNINGS

    Before Vertebrates?

    Cathaymyrus diadexus
    (literally the 'Chinese
    eel of good fortune') is
    not the fossil of an eel.
    At just 5 cm long, but
    535 m.y. old, it is the
    earliest known
    chordate

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