Chordates - Musharof Chy
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology Collections
Searchable database of specimens that includes over 50,000 tissue samples for use in molecular anal...
Phylum Hemichordata, Urochordata and Cephalochordata
Illustrated description of these three phyla, and the three classes within Urochordata. Also inform...
Will's Skull Page
Features images and measurements of mammalian skulls as well as updates and related links.
The Vertebrates
Notes on the classification structure of the Vertebrates with a cladogram to review the evolutionar...
Invertebrate Members of the Phylum Chordata
Outlines the differences between the subphylum Vertebrata and the two subphyla, Urochordata and Cep...
Other Animal Sounds
Clips recorded by Doug Von Gausig of the sounds made by various amphibians, reptiles, mammals and b...
The Annual Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy
Details of this year’s meeting of SVPCA and abstracts from presentations made in previous years.
Terrestrial Vertebrates
Describes the principle characteristics of tetrapods, which have well defined joints and digits, th...
Hearing in Stegocephalians
In this article, Michael Laurin outlines the anatomy and evolution of the outer, middle and inner e...
Phylogeny of Stegocephalians
Stegocephalians are tetrapods with digits rather than fins. Michael Laurin explores the relationshi...
Life History of Stegocephalians
Michael Laurin outlines the life history of tetrapods and extinct terrestrial vertebrates.
Breathing in Stegocephalians
Most tetrapods breathe with the lungs that they inherited from their ancestors such as the coelacan...