VERTEBRATES Pt.1/2
Part one about the first vertebrate animals
Part two : https://youtu.be/3mj0EBQC6lE?si=es01YH2bc7JNLD_0
Music by White Bat audio https://www.youtube.com/@WhiteBatAudio
Thumbnail : montage
Illustrations by Satoshi Kawasaki and Ceri Thomas
Icons next to names indicate the diet :
🦐 Plankton
🐟 Fish
🪱 Invertebrates
🦴 Dead animals
The whole playlist : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZFljdk_R2daQUpjwiAOvjlP8M0rt5a8H&si=fA6ot-KSNfYS6wJs
Sources and more informations about the animals shown :
Vetulicola - https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-Lower-Cambrian-vetulicolian-Vetulicola-cuneata-a-e-from-Chengjiang-and-Vetulicola_fig2_11635347
Pomatrum - https://www.mindat.org/taxon-P368799.html
Yuyuanozoon - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/abs/enigmatic-metazoan-yuyuanozoon-magnificissimi-from-the-early-cambrian-chengjiang-biota-yunnan-province-south-china/8B73B36A9558F3D1D1B5E8C818C54564
Skeemella - https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4870899.html
Pikaia - https://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/fossiles/pikaia-gracilens/
Metaspriggina - https://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/fossils/metaspriggina-walcotti/
Yunnanozoon - https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Morphological-comparison-of-Yunnanozoon-lividum-and-Haikouella-lanceolata-A_fig1_226014846
Sea pineapple - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_pineapple
Ox heart ascidian - https://www.jungledragon.com/specie/7696/ox_heart_ascidian.html
Blue ascidian - https://www.sealifebase.se/summary/Rhopalaea-crassa.html
Vase tunicate - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269105985_First_record_of_vase_tunicate_Ciona_intestinalis_Linnaeus_1767_type_B_in_coastal_Newfoundland_waters
Predatory tunicate - http://www.realmonstrosities.com/2011/08/predatory-tunicate.html
Palaeospondylus - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06434-5
Haikouichthys - https://www.nature.com/articles/nature01264
Myllokunmingia - https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-Lower-Cambrian-agnathan-vertebrate-Myllokunmingia-fengjiaoa-Shu-Zhang-Han-gen-et_fig3_225090001
Proconodontus - https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4842266.html
Panderodus - http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=34006
Promissum - https://www.mindat.org/taxon-8563659.html
Clydagnathus - https://www.mindat.org/taxon-P33880.html
Inshore hagfish - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inshore_hagfish
Euphanerops - https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Euphanerops-longaevus-Woodward-1900-Escuminac-Formation-lower-Frasnian-Upper_fig23_213772136
Mesomyzon - https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/43/23
Pouched lamprey - https://rivers.dwer.wa.gov.au/species/geotria-australis/
Arctic lamprey - https://www.animalspot.net/arctic-lamprey.html
0:00 Introduction
0:43 Vetulicolia
2:45 Chordata
4:55 Tunicata
8:20 Vertebrata
8:50 Agnatha
10:10 Conodonta
12:50 Cyclostomi