Menu

Related Actors

These actors are frequently suggested for roles along with Haikouichthys.

Top Casting Suggestions

Haikouichthys has been suggested to play 5 roles. Click below to see other actors suggested for each role, and vote for who you think would play the role best.

Biography

Haikouichthys /ˌhaɪkuˈɪkθɪs/ is an extinct genus of craniate (animals with notochords and distinct heads) believed to have lived 535 million years ago, during the Cambrian explosion of multicellular life. Haikouichthys had a defined skull and other characteristics that have led paleontologists to label it a true craniate, and even to be popularly characterized as one of the earliest fishes. Cladistic analysis indicates that the animal is probably a basal chordate or a basal craniate; but it does not possess sufficient features to be included uncontroversially even in either stem group. It was formally described in 1999.