Sentence examples for extant order from inspiring English sources

Leptostraca is the only extant order of Phyllocarida, the other two orders, Archaeostraca and Hoplostraca being extinct.

Stomatopoda is the only extant order of Hoplocarida, the other two orders, Aeschronectida and Archaeostomatopoda being extinct.

There is less agreement on the status of the subclass Phyllocarida with its single extant order, Leptostraca, depending on whether foliaceous (leaf-like) limbs have a single or multiple origin.

These muscles are similar to the swimming musculature in an extant order of scyphozoans, the Semaeostomeae, which is arranged as a continuous coronal muscle interrupted by radial folds of the gastric cavity [29].

Members of the three extant orders differ markedly in their structural appearance.

Anura, also called Salientia, one of the major extant orders of the class Amphibia.

Gymnophiona, also called Apoda, one of the three major extant orders of the class Amphibia.

Caudata, also called Urodela, one of the major extant orders of the class Amphibia.

Second, because the overall animation is based upon molecular evidence from extant orders, it may minimize the importance of extinction as a driver of macroevolutionary pattern.

There are seven extant orders, Brisingida, Forcipulatida, Notomyotida, Paxillosida, Spinulosida, Valvatida and Velatida and two extinct ones, Calliasterellidae and Trichasteropsida.

In contrast, molecular studies have suggested markedly older origins for many superordinal groups and that some extant orders diversified before the K T boundary.