What is Craniata?
{{Taxobox | name = Craniata | fossil_range = [[Early Cambrian]] - Recent | image = Pacific hagfish Myxine.jpg | image_width = 250px | image_caption = [[Pacific hagfish]] resting on bottom down off [[Oregon]] coast. | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | unranked_classis = '''Craniata''' | unranked_classis_authority = [[Janvier]] 1981 | subdivision_ranks = [[Subphylum|Subphyla]] | subdivision = [[Cephalaspidomorphi]] <small>(disputed)</small><br /> [[Vertebrata]] }} '''Craniata''' (sometimes '''Craniota''') is a proposed clade of [[chordate]] animals that contains the vertebrates ([[vertebrate|subphylum Vertebrata]]) and Myxini ([[hagfish]]) as living representatives. Craniata includes all animals with a [[skull]], or cranium, as the name suggests. These two [[taxon|taxa]] lack proper [[vertebra]]e, which are characteristic for vertebrates according to the new interpretation, whereas traditionally—and confusingly—they were not (Hickman et al., 2007). {{wikispecies|Craniata}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Chordates]]