Notable sports deaths in 2016. A look at those athletes, coaches and sports personalities we lost in 2016. Keion Carpenter. Keion Carpenter, a former NFL player and Virginia Tech defensive back and special teams standout died Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016 in Miami, the school announced. He was 39 and the cause of death is unknown.
Members of the phylum Chordata are bilaterally symmetric, deuterostome coelomates, and the vertebrate chordates display segmentation. Hemichordata, which includes the acorn worms, has been presented as a fourth chordate subphylum, but it now is usually treated as a separate phylum. It, along with the phylum Echinodermata, which includes starfish, sea urchins, sea cucumbers and their kin, are the chordates' closest relatives.
Chordata-Vertebrates, Tunicates, Lancelets. At some point, all of the organisms in this phylum have a structure called a notochord. A notochord is a flexible rod-like cord of cells that provides the main support for the organism's body during its embryonic stage.n some primitive species, the slits are used to filter food out of the water. In other species, like fish, the pharyngeal slits have gills. In other species, like mammals, the pharyngeal slits are only present during the embryonic stage. Chordates also have a dorsal nerve cord that runs down the length of the organism.