Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A primary division of the Vertebrata, including those which possess a skull and brain, or the whole of the Vertebrata excepting the Leptocardia or Acrania. Also
Craniata .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A comprehensive division of the Vertebrata, including all those that have a skull.
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Examples
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From this primary model of construction we can cenogenetically deduce all the embryonic forms of the other vertebrates, the craniota, by secondary modifications.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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In the craniota we always find only one pair of gonads; in the amphioxus several pairs, arranged in succession.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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In prospondylus the ventral gill-heart probably had the simple form in which we still find it in the ascidia and the embryos of the craniota (Figures 1.98 and 1.100 h).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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In this the simple development of the invaluable amphioxus once more furnishes the key to the complex and cenogenetically modified embryonic processes of the craniota.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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The articulation proceeds in substantially the same way in the other vertebrates, the craniota, starting from the coelom-pouches.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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Here we find a large body-cavity or visceral cavity in all the craniota.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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Hence we must once more thoroughly understand the palingenetic embryonic features of the lancelet before we go on to consider the cenogenetic forms of the craniota.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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As in the case of all the craniota (animals with a skull), the original or primitive ovum
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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The gastraea theory shows us how to do this, by representing the embryology of the lowest vertebrate, the skull-less amphioxus, as the original form, and deducing from it, through a series of gradual modifications, the gastrulation and coelomation of the craniota.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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To these we must add at least nine head-vertebrae, which originally (in all the craniota) constitute the skull.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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