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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A primary division or subkingdom of the animal kingdom, containing all animals which have or have had a notochord, thus including the true vertebrates (also called Craniota), the leptocardians, or Cephalochorda, and the tunicates, or Urochorda.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun comprises true vertebrates and animals having a notochord

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  • As chordata is predated by bilateria, that would indicate that the evolutionary process is ongoing, not 'instantaneous'.

    Continuation… 2008

  • In this picture chordata are still traceable to a unique branch originating at the ground level (0).

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • Upwards from it we have vertical lines going through eukarya (1), metazoa (2), and finally chordata (3).

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • The only point that I was trying to make was that during the Cambrian “we see the origin of the vast majority the basic phyla that are in existence today. ” For example we we along with other vertebrates belong to the phyla chordata.

    Continuation… 2008

  • All are members of the chordata, the deuterostomes with notochords.

    Ascidian evo-devo - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • All are members of the chordata, the deuterostomes with notochords.

    The Panda's Thumb: May 2007 Archives 2007

  • The brain stem is considered to be the oldest part of our brain, oldest in that it is found even in the simplest of animals in our phylum, the chordata.

    THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001

  • The brain stem is considered to be the oldest part of our brain, oldest in that it is found even in the simplest of animals in our phylum, the chordata.

    THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001

  • Hence we may conclude, according to the laws of the theory of descent, that all these chordonia or chordata (tunicates and vertebrates) descend from an ancient common ancestral form, which we may call Chordaea.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • What is the major evolutionary advancement of the phylum chordata?

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

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