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.
At some point in their lives, a chordate will have a notochord, a nerve cord that runs down their back, and a slit in the throat area. The phylum name Chordata came from the n â¦ otochord, a flexible rod that supports the back. They include fishes, amphibians, and reptiles.t some point in their lives, a chordate will have a notochord, a nerve cord that runs down their back, and a slit in the throat area. The phylum name Chordata came from the n â¦ otochord, a flexible rod that supports the back. They include fishes, amphibians, and reptiles.