The pre-radial history of echinoderms
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Andrew B. Smith
Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK.Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Andrew B. Smith
Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK.Search for more papers by this authorAbstract
Gene sequence data now identify a robust phylogeny of deuterostomes and provide a framework within which the evolution of echinoderms can be interpreted. The topology of the molecular tree makes a number of important predictions about the morphological characters of the earliest echinoderm at its split from hemichordates: it possessed gill slits (but not a notochord), had a bilaterally symmetrical body plan in the adult and, less certainly, underwent torsion during development. Carpoids, a highly contentious group of extinct deuterostomes with a plated calcite skeleton that have variously been interpreted as stem- and crown-group chordates, stem-group echinoderms or stem- and crown-group echinoderms, display many of these basal characters and provide critical evidence for how the latest common ancestor of hemichordates and echinoderms was transformed into a pentaradiate crown-group echinoderm.
Cinctans have a large atrial opening in addition to mouth and anus, and are interpreted as pharyngeal basket feeders. The paired grooves associated with the mouth indicate the presence of a hydrovascular system, but not necessarily one built along the echinoderm plan (that is, derived from just the left hydrocoel). Stylophorans have a bilateral body plan that is externally masked by torsion and possess gills, either unpaired and external, or paired and internal, opening into an atrial cavity. Their bilateral appendage is a locomotory organ, not an ambulacrum, and there is no evidence that stylophorans ever possessed a well-developed hydrovascular system homologous to the water vascular system of echinoderms and the tentacles of pterobranch hemichordates. Solutes are the most crownward, having a true echinodermal ambulacral system with a single hydropore and no pharyngeal gill openings. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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