Chordate Characteristics
Subphylum Urochordata: a Tunicate
Subphylum Cephalochordata: Lancelet Anatomy
Subphylum Cephalochordata: the lancelet Branchiostoma
Australian Monotremes and Marsupials Spiny Anteater (Monotreme) Sugar glider (marsupial) Marsupial Mouse
Hypothetical Cladogram of Mammals
A Phylogenetic Tree of Primates
Evolutionary convergence of marsupial and eutherian (placental) mammals
Major Orders of Mammals (Monotremata-Sirenia)
Major Orders of Mammals (Edentata-Primates)
Major Orders of Mammals (Carnivora-Cetaceans)
Primate Diversity
Prosimians:Lemurs
Sitting pads, estrus swelling, generally larger A Capuchin, a New World Monkey (left), and a Vervet, an Old World Monkey (rt) Arboreal, no sitting pads or estrus swelling, prehensile tail Sitting pads, estrus swelling, generally larger Others: baboon, macaque,Colobus, Rhesus Others: squirrel monkey, spider monkey, howler monkey
Crested Macaque Showing Estrus Swelling
Orangutan Gibbon Chimpanzee Gorilla
Bonobo
Jane Goodall Today
List: a. two prosimians b. two anthropoids List one characteristic of: a. chordates b. mammals c. primates