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Out of certain cœlomati, the most ancient skull-less vertebrata were directly developed.

From Was Man Created? by Mott, Henry A. (Henry Augustus)

During the archilithic epoch the inhabitants of our planet, as has been already stated, consisted of skull-less animals, or aquatic forms.

From Was Man Created? by Mott, Henry A. (Henry Augustus)

I would rather belong to one that commenced at the skull-less vertebrae and started for perfection, than to belong to one, that started from perfection and started for the skull-less vertebrae.

From Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest by Ingersoll, Robert Green

Man's ancestors are skull-less Vertebrates, like the Amphioxus.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

Mr. Haeckel has shown that "in the first epoch, algæ and skull-less vertebrates were found together; in the second, ferns and fishes; in the third, pines and reptiles; in the fourth, foliaceous forests and mammals."

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green