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    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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    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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    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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  • 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 but from the Mid Cambrian Burgess Shale, is also...
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    stalked eyes, and a fused proboscis tipped with a claw-like appendage. Pikaia was a stem-chordate from the Middle Cambrian Protichnites were the trackways...
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    1144/jgs2017-103. ISSN 0016-7649. S2CID 135091168. Shu, DG., Morris, S. & Zhang, XL. A Pikaia-like chordate from the Lower Cambrian of China. Nature 384, 157–158 (1996)...
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    Africa. It is known from a single, 11 mm long specimen found in black shale. Pikaia Cathaymyrus Oelofsen, B. W., and J. C. Loock. "A FOSSIL CEPHALOCHORDATE...
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    chordates have been suggested to be closely related to lancelets, including Pikaia and Cathaymyrus from the Cambrian and Palaeobranchiostoma from the Permian...
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  • neurocranium for elevation during suction feeding. Published information on Pikaia gracilens (a well-known Cambrian era fossil) explains evolution of swimming...
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    be invertebrate forerunners of the true vertebrates — proto-chordates. Pikaia has been heavily promoted as the oldest fossil protochordate." Richard Dawkins...
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    openings on the side of the body being used to expel water. Metaspriggina Pikaia Xianguang, Hou; RamsköLd, Lars; BergströM, Jan (October 1991). "Composition...
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    Archived from the original on April 30, 2023. Retrieved April 30, 2023. Pikaia! seasons: Season 1: ピカイア![シリーズ]. Media Arts Database (in Japanese). Agency...
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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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    the ancestor of the fishes, or was probably closely related to it, was Pikaia. It had a primitive notochord, a structure that could have developed into...
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    speciation – phenotype – phylogenetics – phylogeny – phylogenetic tree – Pikaia – Plant evolution – polymorphism (biology) – population – population bottleneck...
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  • (2015) Ghost in the Shell: Arise (2015) Attack on Titan: Junior High (2015) Pikaia! (2015) Ghost in the Shell Arise – Alternative Architecture (2015) Joker...
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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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    Evolution of fish Fish Timeline of fish evolution Forerunners Basal member †Pikaia Cephalochordate †Cathaymyrus Lancelet Olfactores †Haikouella Tunicate †Myllokunmingiidae...
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    anglais), dinosaurs and other ancient creatures such as Hallucigenia and Pikaia, and subjects from fantasy and games (Hero, Mi-Go, Buer), many of which...
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    now viewed as analogous, convergent, or from a different lineal origin. Pikaia appears to have a proto-notochord, and notochords are present in several...
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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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    Evolution of fish Fish Timeline of fish evolution Forerunners Basal member †Pikaia Cephalochordate †Cathaymyrus Lancelet Olfactores †Haikouella Tunicate †Myllokunmingiidae...
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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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  • to be invertebrate forerunners of the true vertebrates — protochordates. Pikaia has been heavily promoted as the oldest fossil protochordate." Morris SC...
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    Retrieved 2023-07-07. Tom McNamara (2020-01-18). "Galapagos Evolved: Land-based Pikaia Lodge embraces green living". Vancouver Sun. Pinnacle Rock, Galapagos. Retrieved...
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    being discovered that lack such cuticle, such as the probable chordate Pikaia and the shellless Odontogriphus. It is a common misconception that anaerobic...
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    orders that are located in the Phylum Chordata. Order Amphioxiformes Genus Pikaia † Order Enterogona Order Pleurogona Order Aspiraculata Order Doliolida Order...
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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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