WebThe class ranks below the phylum and above the order in taxonomy. Members of a class share more characteristics with each other than they do with other organisms in the same phylum. Amphibians and reptiles both belong to the Phylum Chordata, but each belongs to a different class. Members of the Class Amphibia (chiefly frogs, toads, and ...

Web04/11/2022 · Chordata: Class: Actinopterygii: Order: Pleuronectiformes: Family: Pleuronectidae: Genus: Hippoglossus: Species: stenolepis: Last updated by NOAA Fisheries on 11/23/2022. Featured News. Feature Story. 2022 Commercial Halibut Season Is Set to Open. West Coast. A fisheries observer collects data aboard a partial-coverage …

WebChordata: Class: Actinopterygii: Order: Acanthuriformes: Suborder: Sciaenoidei: Family: Sciaenidae Cuvier, 1829: Genera About 66–70, see text Sciaenidae are a family of fish in the order Acanthuriformes. ... Characteristics. A sciaenid has a long dorsal fin reaching nearly to the tail, and a notch between the rays and spines of the dorsal, although the …

WebPlacodermi (from Greek πλάξ 'plate' and δέρμα 'skin', literally 'plate-skinned') is a class of armoured prehistoric fish, known from fossils, which lived from the Silurian to the end of the Devonian period. Their head and thorax were covered by articulated armoured plates and the rest of the body was scaled or naked, depending on the species.Placoderms were …

WebBrontotheriidae is a family of extinct mammals belonging to the order Perissodactyla, the order that includes horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs.Superficially, they looked rather like rhinos, although they were actually more closely related to horses; Equidae and Brontotheriidae make up the suborder Hippomorpha.They lived around 56–34 million …

WebCharacteristics. Cebid monkeys are arboreal animals that only rarely travel on the ground. They are generally small monkeys, ranging in size up to that of the brown capuchin, with a body length of 33 to 56 cm, and a weight of 2.5 to 3.9 kilograms.They are somewhat variable in form and coloration, but all have the wide, flat, noses typical of New World monkeys.

WebHomo longi is an extinct species of archaic human identified from a nearly complete skull, nicknamed 'Dragon Man', from Harbin on the Northeast China Plain, dating to at minimum 146,000 years ago during the Middle Pleistocene.The skull was discovered in 1933 along the Songhua River while the Dongjiang Bridge [] was under construction for the …

Webinvertebrate, any animal that lacks a vertebral column, or backbone, in contrast to the cartilaginous or bony vertebrates. More than 90 percent of all living animal species are invertebrates. Worldwide in distribution, they include animals as diverse as sea stars, sea urchins, earthworms, sponges, jellyfish, lobsters, crabs, insects, spiders, snails, clams, …

WebTroodontidae / t r oʊ. ə ˈ d ɒ n t ɪ d iː / is a clade of bird-like theropod dinosaurs.During most of the 20th century, troodontid fossils were few and incomplete and they have therefore been allied, at various times, with many dinosaurian lineages. More recent fossil discoveries of complete and articulated specimens (including specimens which preserve feathers, …

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