VERTEBRATE/HUMAN EVOLUTION Pictures for Big Cladogram of Vertebrate Evolution The letters A-H below are used to reference the sources for the illustrations, 1-11 Click on links (in blue); To return to this page, click on "Back" button of your browser. A. Gould, Stephen Jay. 1989. Wonderful Life.
Norton & Co. pp. 321-323 1b. Amphioxus
(Branchiostoma) 2a. Agnatha (jawless
fishes): Heterostracan (Pteraspis); Coelolepid (Phlebolepis) 2b. Cyclostomes:
Lamprey (Petromyzon); Hagfish (Bdellostoma) 3a. Gnathostomes
(jawed fishes): Climatius sp. 3b. Modern jawed fish (Sea Perch): B. page 253; Onsite: http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/c.perch.html 4a. Crossopterygian
(lobe-fin fishes): Eusthenopteron sp. 4b. Coelacanth (Latimeria
chalumnae) 5a. Amphibian:
Ichthyostega 5b. Salamander
(Ranodon sibiricus) 6a. Reptiles (Cotylosaurs):
Captorhinus sp.; Hylonomus sp. 6b. Modern reptile:
Galapagos Land Iguana (Amblyrhynchus demarlii) 6c. Birds: Archaeopteryx
and Pigeon 7a1. Synapsid:
Pelycosaur (Dimetrodon sp.): - Onsite: http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/c.dimet.html 7a2. Synapsid: Therapsid
(Cynognathus sp.): - Onsite: http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/c.cyno.html 8a. Early Mammals:
Sinoconodon sp.; Megazostrodon sp: 8b. Mod. Mammal:
Dog (from web source: http://www.geocities.com/~kidsanddogs/skeleton2.html) 9a. Early Primate:
Plesiadapid (Palaechthon sp.) 9b. Modern Prosimians:
Ring-Tailed Lemur, Tarsier, Gray Loris 10a. Early Hominids
("Pre-Apes"): Proconsul sp., Aegyptopithecus
sp. 10b. Modern Apes (all 4): F. page 387, fig. 19-2; - Onsite: http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/c.apes.html 11 Hominids
(A. africanus, H. erectus, H. sapiens, side
views); +Gorilla skeleton for comparison 1a Pikaia: http://ibis.nott.ac.uk/~plzkjc/pikaia.html 1b Amphioxus: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/chordata/cephalo.html 2a Pteraspis: http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/courses/EEB182/Lecture11/lect11.html 2b Lampreys: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/basalfish/petro.html 2b Hagfishes: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/basalfish/myxini.html 3a Climatius: http://ibis.nott.ac.uk/~plzkjc/acanth.html 4a Crossopt. Eusthenopteron(2): http://nettl.usyd.edu.au/bio2animals/images/sem2/wk8/064.JPG 4a Crossopt. Eusthenopteron painting: http://nettl.usyd.edu.au/bio2animals/images/sem2/wk8/368.jpg 4a Crossopt. Stepsodus: http://www.sghms.ac.uk/depts/anatomy/webpages/andrews.jpg 4b Coelacanth: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/coelacanth/coelacanths.html 4b Lungfish: http://www.museum.siu.edu/Lincoln_Middle/Transition%20From%20Sea%20To%20Land 5a Ichthyostega(2): http://nettl.usyd.edu.au/bio2animals/images/sem2/wk8/065.JPG 5a Ichthyostega: http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/ENTO/tree/eukaryotes/animals/chordata/ichthyostega/ichthyostega.html 6a Captorhinus photos: http://www.island.net/~jackwhit/reptiles.htm 7a2 Dimetrodon: http://www.amnh.org/Exhibition/Expedition/Fossils/Specimens/dimetrodon.html 7a2 Dimetrodon: http://www.prehistory.com/dimetrod.htm 7a1 Cynognathus: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hall/1636/synapsida/therapsida.html 8b Dog Skeleton (line drawing): http://www.geocities.com/~kidsanddogs/skeleton2.html 8b Cat Skeleton: http://courses.ncsu.edu:8020/classes/zo370001/AppenMus/TextImages/Catskelcp.htm 10a Aegyptopithecus: http://erasmus.biol.csufresno.edu/he/25-36.html
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