n. Any member of the clade Craniata bearing bony skulls.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Having a skull or cranium, as do all vertebrates above the lampreys.
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n. animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium
Word Usage
"In other words, each bit of evidence, from the most ancient craniate fossil to the molecular structure of neurons, fits the hypothesis of evolutionary descent."