Haikouichthys is one of three species of jawless (or agnathan) fish to be found in the Early Cambrian period.
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Agnathan
//ˈæɡ.nə.θən//
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6 translations across 6 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- àgnat noun (member of the superclass Agnatha of jawless vertebrates)
Finnish
1 entries- leuaton selkärankainen noun (member of the superclass Agnatha of jawless vertebrates)
Polish
1 entries- bezżuchwowiec noun (member of the superclass Agnatha of jawless vertebrates)
Portuguese
1 entries- agnato noun (member of the superclass Agnatha of jawless vertebrates)
Spanish
1 entries- agnato noun (member of the superclass Agnatha of jawless vertebrates)
Welsh
1 entries- pysgod di-ên noun (member of the superclass Agnatha of jawless vertebrates)
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Thus should the cranial neural crest in cyclostomes prove to be non-skeletogenous this might be a reflection either of its own primitiveness or of the different evolutionary origins and morphological status of the visceral skeleton in agnathans and gnathostomes.
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The hagfish is an agnathan, a modern representative of the earliest evolved group of vertebrates, the ostracoderms or jawless fishes, which arose prior to the ancient placoderms (3).
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