Explore: Extinct Vertebrates

fossilized remains, the behavior, reproduction and appearance of extinct vertebrates (animals with vertebrae and their descendants). It also tries to

Despite their success, vertebrates still only make up less than five percent of all described animal species. The first vertebrates appeared in the Cambrian

in almost all vertebrates, but is absent in protochordates, in which there is a simple pineal homologue. The hagfish, archaic vertebrates, lack a pineal

  Extinct in the wild (EW): 2 species   Critically endangered (CR): 203 species   Endangered (EN): 505 species   Vulnerable (VU): 536 species   Near threatened

T40766A10363474.en. Richardson, M. (2023) Threatened and recently extinct vertebrates of the world: A biogeographic approach. Cambridge University Press

This is a list of North American animals extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11

William (1901). "II.—Preliminary Note on some Recently Discovered Extinct Vertebrates from Egypt. (Part I.)". Geological Magazine. 8 (9): 400–409. Bibcode:1901GeoM

hagfishes and lampreys) and extinct clades (e.g. conodonts and cephalaspidomorphs, among others). They are sister to vertebrates with jaws known as gnathostomes

Marine vertebrates are vertebrates that live in marine environments, which include saltwater fish (including pelagic, coral and deep sea fish) and marine

  Extinct in the wild (EW): 5 species   Critically endangered (CR): 223 species   Endangered (EN): 460 species   Vulnerable (VU): 798 species   Near threatened