Sentence examples for craniate from inspiring English sources

The group is of great evolutionary interest, however, because it includes the oldest known craniate fossils and because the living agnathans have many primitive characteristics.

If evidence from fossil and living forms is combined, the Agnatha are distinguishable from the other craniates (Gnathostomata) by what they lack: jaws, lateral fins supported by fin rays, vertebrae, a horizontal semicircular canal in the ear, and genital ducts.

Gnathostome fishes, the oldest craniates, became common near the end of Silurian times.