Web Links
16. Fishes and basal tetrapods
Read about vertebrate origins at:
http://www.tolweb.org/Chordata
and fishes at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish
http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Units/020Craniata/000.html
The amazing FishBase offers details of 30,000 species of fishes:
http://www.fishbase.org/search.php
Read about basal tetrapods at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrapod
amphibians at:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/tetrapods/amphibintro.html
and reptiles at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptile
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Reptilia.htm
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Read more about the Chengjiang site of exceptional preservation at:
http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Lagerstatten/chngjang/index.html
http://www.peripatus.gen.nz/paleontology/lagChengjiang.html
http://wwwalt.uni-wuerzburg.de/palaeontologie/Stuff/casu30.htm
http://www.palaeos.com/Paleozoic/Cambrian/Chengjiang.html
You can read more about the basal chordates at:
http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc99/11_6_99/fob1.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haikouichthys
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/504776.stm
http://sinanthropus.blogspot.com/2006/07/other-early-chinese-fish-like.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myllokunmingia
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Read about conodonts at:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/GeolSci/micropal/conodont.html
http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Units/030Conodonta/030.000.html
http://geology.csusb.edu/cdont_art.htm
and the Pander Society, devoted to the study of conodonts, at:
http://www.le.ac.uk/geology/conodont/pander/index.html
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Read about the Human Genome Project and genome size at:
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/faq/compgen.shtml
and find out the genome size of your favorite organism at:
http://www.genomesize.com
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/G/GenomeSizes.html
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Read about the first finds of Old Red Sandstone fishes at:
http://www.fossilnews.com/2001/hughmiller/fishstory.html
and the Old Red Sandstone lake and its fishes at:
http://www.palaeos.com/Paleozoic/Devonian/MidDev.html
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Read more about the basal tetrapods at:
http://darwiniana.org/tetrapods.htm
http://www.devoniantimes.org/site-index.html
and descriptions of the new intermediate form Tiktaalik at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiktaalik/
