Chordata
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Chordata is the containing clade of vertebrates and one of the traditional phyla of animals.
Almost all chordates have bilaterally symmetric bodies that are longitudinally differentiated into head, trunk and tail. Some morphological features of chordates include:
The earliest known chordates are from the Cambrian.
