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Tytuł:
New albanerpetontid amphibians from the Early Cretaceous of Morocco and Middle Jurassic of England
Autorzy:
Gardner, J D
Evans, S.E.
Sigogneau-Russell, D.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/21595.pdf
Data publikacji:
2003
Wydawca:
Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:
Early Cretaceous
Middle Jurassic
Cretaceous
England
Albanerpetontidae
amphibian
albanerpetontid amphibian
Ramonellus
Morocco
Jurassic
paleontology
Lissamphibia
Opis:
A third albanerpetontid genus, Anoualerpeton gen. nov., is erected for two new species: An. unicussp. nov. (type species) from the Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) of Morocco and An. priscus sp. nov. from the Middle Jurassic (late Bathonian) of England. Anoualerpeton differs from the exclusively Laurasian albanerpetontid genera Albanerpeton (Early Cretaceous– Paleocene, North America; Miocene, Europe) and Celtedens (?Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous, Europe) in a unique combination of primitive and derived character states of the jaws and azygous frontals. Monophyly of Anoualerpeton is supported by two synapomorphies of the maxilla and dentary (occlusal margin convex in labial outline and teeth strongly heterodont in size anteriorly) that are convergent with an unrelated, relatively derived Late Cretaceous species of Albanerpeton from North America. The two species of Anoualerpeton differ in character states of the premaxilla and azygous frontals. Cladistic analysis of 20 characters scored for ten albanerpetontid taxa postulates Anoualerpeton as the sister−taxon of Albanerpeton + Celtedens. The sister−pair of Albanerpeton + Celtedensis founded on one or, perhaps, two premaxillary synapomorphies. Anoualerpeton unicus documents the only known Gondwanan occurrence for the Albanerpetontidae and provides a minimum age of basal Cretaceous for the establishment of the clade in Africa. Characters of the mandible, vertebrae, and limbs support the interpretation that Ramonellus (Aptian; Israel) is a caudate, not an albanerpetontid.
Źródło:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2003, 48, 2
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Fused and vaulted nasals of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs: Implications for cranial strength and feeding mechanics
Autorzy:
Snively, E.
Henderson, D.M.
Phillips, D.S.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/21688.pdf
Data publikacji:
2006
Wydawca:
Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:
Carnosauria
computer tomography
Theropoda
Tyrannosauridae
biomechanics
computer modelling
dinosaur
feeding mechanism
paleontology
theropod dinosaur
tyrannosaurid dinosaur
cranial strength
Opis:
Tyrannosaurid theropods display several unusual adaptations of the skulls and teeth. Their nasals are fused and vaulted, suggesting that these elements braced the cranium against high feeding forces. Exceptionally high strengths of maxillary teeth in Tyrannosaurus rex indicate that it could exert relatively greater feeding forces than other tyrannosaurids. Areas and second moments of area of the nasals, calculated from CT cross−sections, show higher nasal strengths for large tyrannosaurids than for Allosaurus fragilis. Cross−sectional geometry of theropod crania reveals high second moments of area in tyrannosaurids, with resulting high strengths in bending and torsion, when compared with the crania of similarly sized theropods. In tyrannosaurids trends of strength increase are positively allomeric and have similar allometric exponents, indicating correlated progression towards unusually high strengths of the feeding apparatus. Fused, arched nasals and broad crania of tyrannosaurids are consistent with deep bites that impacted bone and powerful lateral movements of the head for dismembering prey.
Źródło:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2006, 51, 3
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Anisodontherium from the Late Miocene of north-western Argentina
Autorzy:
Brandoni, D.
Powell, J.E.
Gonzales, O.E.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/20115.pdf
Data publikacji:
2012
Wydawca:
Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:
Anisodontherium
Late Miocene
Miocene
paleontology
Argentina
Xenarthra
Megatheriinae
ground sloth
diversity
Upper Miocene
Opis:
The fossil record of Megatheriinae (Tardigrada, Megatheriidae) in Argentina extends from the Colloncuran (Middle Miocene of Patagonia) to the Lujanian (Late Pleistocene–Early Holocene of the Pampean region). In the Late Miocene of north−western Argentina, Megatheriinae is represented by just three species belonging to a single genus, Pyramiodontherium. Here, we describe a partial mandible and the phalanges of a third digit of the manus recovered from the Saladillo Formation (Upper Miocene) of Tucumán Province, and assign them to Anisodontherium sp. Anisodontherium is primarily characterized by mesiodistally compressed molariforms, an anterior margin of the coronoid process located posterior to m4, and a posterior margin of the mandibular symphysis located anterior to m1. While these features can also be observed in A. halmyronomum from the Arroyo Chasicó Formation (Buenos Aires Province, Pampean region), Anisodontherium sp. is smaller and more slender than the former. The shape of each molariform of Anisodontherium affects the total length of the molariform tooth row, and thus the interpretation of some characters used in cladistic and paleobiological analyses. The material described here adds to the knowledge of the mandibular and dental anatomy of early megatheriines. In addition, the occurrence of Anisodotherium in Tucumán Province provides the first record of this genus outside the Pampean region, and increases the diversity of megatheriines during the Late Miocene–Pliocene of north−western Argentina.
Źródło:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2012, 57, 2
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
New information on scavenging and selective feeding behaviour of tyrannosaurids
Autorzy:
Hone, D.W.E.
Watabe, M.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/20999.pdf
Data publikacji:
2010
Wydawca:
Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:
paleontology
new information
scavenging
feeding behaviour
tyrannosaurid
Dinosauria
Theropoda
Tarbosaurus
paleoecology
carnivore
predation
fossil record
Opis:
Feeding traces for carnivorous theropod dinosaurs are typically rare but can provide important evidence of prey choice and mode of feeding. Here we report a humerus of the hadrosaurine Saurolophus which was heavily damaged from feeding attributed to the giant tyrannosaurine Tarbosaurus. The bone shows multiple bites made in three distinctive styles termed “punctures”, “drag marks” and “bite−and−drag marks”. The distribution of these bites suggest that the animal was actively selecting which biting style to use based on which part of the bone was being engaged. The lack of damage to the rest of the otherwise complete and articulated hadrosaur strongly implies that this was a scavenging event, the first reported for a tyrannosaurid, and not feeding at a kill site.
Źródło:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2010, 55, 4
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
The ultrastructure, development, and systematic position of the graptolite genus Mastigograptus
Autorzy:
Bates, D E B
Urbanek, A.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/21265.pdf
Data publikacji:
2002
Wydawca:
Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:
Graptolithina
internal structure
graptolite
development
remains
Pterobranchia
taxonomy
systematic position
stratigraphy
Mastigograptus
Ordovician
ultrastructure
paleontology
Opis:
Fragments of rhabdosomes isolated by chemical treatment from an erratic boulder of Baltic origin and ?Middle Ordovician age, provisionally assigned to Mastigograptus aff. tenuiramosus (Wallcott, 1881) were studied with SEM. Although exceptionally well preserved, remains lack the thin−walled free portions of thecae. Rhabdosomes are provided with a strongly developed basal disc, short stem and many branched stipes. The latter consist of heavily corticalized chains of stolothecae with alternately disposed thecal bases. Stolothecae display a morphological gradient and increase in size and change in shape distalwards. The stolon system studied with SEM on naturally and artificially broken specimens, as well as traced through open thecal bases, reveals a regular triad budding but no stolon inside the stolothecal cavity. We tentatively suggest that crassal lining, recognized earlier by TEM studies, corresponds to an unusually inflated stolonal stolon, filling the entire thecal cavity and adhering tightly to stolothecal wall. The systematic position of Mastigograptus, a matter of long debate, seems to be defined by a number of structural features which imply a distinct difference between genus in question and all known orders of sessile graptolites. The order Mastigograptida nov. and the family Mastigograptidae nov. are proposed.
Źródło:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2002, 47, 3
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Acanthodian fish trace fossils from the Early Devonian of Spitsbergen
Autorzy:
Wisshak, M
Volohonsky, E.
Blomeier, D.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/21739.pdf
Data publikacji:
2004
Wydawca:
Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:
fish trail
trace fossil
Old Red Sandstone
fossil
Devonian
Acanthodii
Undichna
Spitsbergen
paleontology
Svalbard
Opis:
We describe and interpret Undichna septemsulcata isp. nov., from the fluvial Old Red Sandstone deposits of the Early Devonian Wood Bay Formation, of Northern Spitsbergen (Svalbard). Its delicate scratch pattern, comprising one unpaired median groove and three pairs of lateral grooves, all with a regular in−phase sinusoidal wave pattern of equal wavelength, allow the reconstruction of the number, position and relative spacing of the fins. The comparatively high−amplitude median groove is attributed to the main propelling action of the tail or caudal fin, the inner pair of the lateral grooves to the action of the pelvic fins, and the low−amplitude outer set of duplicate grooves to bifurcated pectoral fins, respectively. The in−phase geometric pattern is explained by a distance between the unpaired fin (caudal or anal fin) to the pectoral fins corresponding to one wavelength and a position of the pelvic fins half way in between. The direction of movement and the mode of locomotion of the trace maker (a carangiform to ostraciiform type) are deduced. This analysis is leading to an acanthodian (possibly Diplacanthus) as the most probable trace maker. By being Pragian or early Emsian (Early Devonian) in age, according to vertebrate and palynomorph biostratigraphy, these specimens are among the world’s oldest trace fossils made by a vertebrate.
Źródło:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2004, 49, 4
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Kirkigraptus, a new retiolitid graptolite from Poland
Autorzy:
Kozlowska, A
Bates, D.E.B.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/21786.pdf
Data publikacji:
2008
Wydawca:
Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:
deposit
Polska
systematics
paleontology
Silurian
Kirkigraptus inexpectans
retiolitid skeleton
Retiolitidae
graptolite
Graptolithina
retiolitid graptolite
new species
new aspect
East European Platform
evolution
Opis:
The new retiolitid graptolite Kirkigraptus inexpectans gen. et sp. nov., from the Neodiversograptus nilssoni Biozone of the Bartoszyce borehole, Poland is described. It is unique among the retiolitids not having a preserved virgella or ancora. Instead the most proximal structures are two round proxi−lateral lists, joining the two genicular lists of the first thecae, connecting the two sides of the rhabdosome. The lists are interpreted as a possible homologue of the distal edge of the ancora umbrella in typical retiolitids. The size of rhabdosome with large proximal lateral orifices, and the ventral panels of thecae with mid−ventral lists, are similar to those of Plectograptus, whereas the two ancora sleeve panels consisting of spaced horizontal lists only, resemble those of Valentinagraptus. It is possible that the new retiolitid may represent a new pattern of development of the proximal end of the rhabdosome, different from that in all other retiolitids.
Źródło:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2008, 53, 1
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Tapirs from the Pleistocene of Venezuela
Autorzy:
Holanda, E.C.
Rincon, A.D.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/20061.pdf
Data publikacji:
2012
Wydawca:
Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:
tapir
Tapirus terrestris
Pleistocene
Venezuela
Mammalia
Perissodactyla
Tapirus
El Breal de Orocual
Zumbador Cave
locality
paleontology
remains
systematics
tooth
measurement
morphometric analysis
Opis:
The living tapir Tapirus terrestrisis widely distributed in Venezuela, occurring mainly south of the Orinoco, while being absent from arid, high Andean and insular areas. Here, we describe new material of fossil tapirs from two Pleistocene localities of Venezuela: Zumbador Cave and El Breal de Orocual. Based on its size and morphology, the material from Zumbador Cave (skull, mandible and postcrania) is assigned to the extant T. terrestris, and represents the most northwestern fossil record of this species in South America. By contrast, the remains from the tar seep of El Breal de Orocual are more gracile, and differ from T. terrestris and other fossil and living species from South America in the presence of a metastylid on the lower cheek teeth. We tentatively assign the latter remains to Tapirussp., based on juvenile and isolated dentary material. However, the possibility that these specimens may represent a new species or an immigrant from North America cannot be completely excluded.
Źródło:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2012, 57, 3
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Silurian synziphosurine horseshoe crab Pasternakevia revisited
Autorzy:
Krzeminski, W.
Krzeminska, E.
Wojciechowski, D.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/20993.pdf
Data publikacji:
2010
Wydawca:
Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:
Silurian
horseshoe crab
arthropod
Pasternakevia
paleontology
Arthropoda
Xiphosura
Bunodidae
phylogenesis
Ukraine
stratigraphy
Opis:
The synziphosurine horseshoe crab Pasternakevia was until now known only from a single specimen. Herein we describe three new specimens from the outcrop close to the type locality of monotypic P. podolica that show several features that were unknown or only assumed in this genus. These characters include: a smooth surface of the carapace; an opisthosoma composed of ten segments, the first one being a microtergite (strongly reduced first opisthosomal segment usually hidden under the carapace), two or three last segments fused into a metasoma, and the telson. Pasternakevia is included in Bunodidae due to a hypertrophied tergite 2, but it is linked to the Pseudoniscidae by the shape of the opisthosoma.
Źródło:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2010, 55, 1
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
The extent of the pterosaur flight membrane
Autorzy:
Elgin, R.
Hone, D.
Frey, E.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/23515.pdf
Data publikacji:
2011
Wydawca:
Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:
paleontology
Reptilia
Pterosauria
flight
wing
Mesozoic
pterosaur
wing membrane
fossil
Opis:
The shape and extent of the membranous brachioptagium in pterosaurs remains a controversial topic for those attempting to determine the aerodynamic performance of the first vertebrate fliers. Various arguments in favour of the trailing edge terminating against either the torso or hip, the femur, the ankle, or different locations for various taxa, has resulted in several published reconstructions. Uncertainty over the correct model is detrimental to both aerodynamic and palaeoecological studies that are forced to simultaneously consider multiple and highly variable configurations for individual taxa. A review of relevant pterosaur specimens with preserved soft tissues or impressions of the wing membrane, however, strongly suggests that the trailing edge of the wing extended down to the lower leg or ankle in all specimens where the brachiopatagium is completely preserved. This configuration is seen across a phylogenetically broad range of pterosaurs and is thus likely to have been universally present throughout the Pterosauria. Support for opposing hypotheses where the trailing edge terminates against the body, hip, or knee are based on several specimens where the wing membrane is either incomplete or has undergone post−mortem contraction. An ankle attachment does not rule out a high aspect ratio wing as the curvature of the trailing edge and the ratio of the fore to hind limbs also play a major role in determining the final shape of the membrane.
Źródło:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2011, 56, 1
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Pneumaticity and soft-tissue reconstructions in the neck of diplodocid and dicraeosaurid sauropods
Autorzy:
Schwarz, D
Frey, E.
Meyer, C.A.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/22875.pdf
Data publikacji:
2007
Wydawca:
Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:
Dicraeosauridae
pneumaticity
cervical ligament
morphology
dicraeosaurid sauropod
diplodocid sauropod
sauropod
Diplodocidae
body length
muscle
ontogenesis
tomography
soft tissue reconstruction
cervical musculature
vertebral pneumaticity
paleontology
functional morphology
Opis:
The axial soft−tissue system in the neck of Dicraeosauridae and Diplodocidae, including pneumatic diverticula, ligaments, and muscles, is reconstructed on the basis of phylogenetic and functional morphological comparisons with extant crocodylians and birds and compared with other soft−tissue reconstructions for sauropods. Bifurcation of the neural spines separated the paired supraspinal ligament into two sheets. A paired interspinal septum was attached to the cranial and caudal margins of the neural spines. The dorsal and the lateral portions of the cervical musculature must have been strongly segmented, whereas the laterocostal portion was divided with one myoseptum per vertebral segment. The hypaxial cervical muscle was most probably small and only poorly segmented. In Diplodocidae and Dicraeosauridae, the distribution of external pneumatic structures is similar, whereas only Diplodocidae possess intraosseous pneumatic structures. Supravertebral pneumatic diverticula are reconstructed for both groups, which, together with dorsal ligaments filled the gap between the metapophyses of bifurcate neural spines. Comparisons between the vertebrae of juvenile and adult diplodocids strongly indicate that pneumatisation proceeded from the supramedullary diverticula into the neural arch and the neural spine. The regular branching pattern of the pneumatic cavities as well as the vertical I−beam construction of the vertebral corpora is interpreted as a consequence of the biomechanical constraints of the vertebral corpora in diplodocids. These reconstructions form the ground for functional morphological considerations in Diplodocidae and Dicraeosauridae while addressing the possible mechanical consequences of pneumatic structures for the integrity of the support system of the neck.
Źródło:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2007, 52, 1
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
First palaeanodont [?pholidotan] mammal from the Eocene of Europe
Autorzy:
Gheerbrant, E
Rose, K.D.
Godinot, M.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/20777.pdf
Data publikacji:
2005
Wydawca:
Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:
Neustrian
Eocene
mammal
Mammalia
Palaeanodonta
Europe
paleontology
paleobiogeography
Opis:
We report the discovery in the early Eocene French locality of Le Quesnoy (MP7, Neustrian) of the first palaeanodont from the Eocene of Europe, and the first metacheiromyid from outside of western North America. The species, known from a dentary and a few postcranial bones, belongs to the genus Palaeanodon, and it is one of several North American immigrant taxa that characterize the Paleocene–Eocene faunal turnover in Europe. Palaeanodon sp. from Le Quesnoy is close in size to P. nievelti from the early Wasatchian of North America. However, it shows noticeable primitive features such as a more prominent ventral keel on the metacarpal III and a probably elongated and bilobed pc4 (= p4), although this is inferred from the infilled alveolus. Additional original features are also noticed on the tentatively referred astragalus. These minor differences suggest that the Le Quesnoy form represents a new species, but the available material remains inadequate to name it. The morphology and the size of the metacarpal are actually closer to P. parvulus (Clarkforkian)—P. nievelti (Wasatchian) intermediates, suggesting a sister−group relationship with the latter (if Palaeanodon sp. from Le Quesnoy is not shown to belong to a distinct European lineage). This would indicate a dispersal at least as old as P. nievielti and a correlation of Le Quesnoy not later than early Wasatchian. The discovery of Palaeanodon in Le Quesnoy fits paleobiogeographically well with the hypothesis of a relationship of palaeanodonts to pholidotans, which have their earliest record in the middle Eocene of Europe (Messel).
Źródło:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2005, 50, 2
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
A new type of colony in Silurian (upper Wenlock) retiolitid graptolite Spinograptus from Poland
Autorzy:
Kozlowska, A.
Dobrowolska, K.
Bates, D.E.B.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/22266.pdf
Data publikacji:
2013
Wydawca:
Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:
new type
colony
Silurian
retiolitid graptolite
Spinograptus
Graptoloidea
Retiolitidae
Polska
paleontology
Opis:
The new retiolitid species, Spinograptus tubothecalis, is described from the Colonograptus praedeubeli and C. deubeli biozones from two localities in Poland: a borehole on the East European Platform and the Holy Cross Mountains. This was a recovery phase after the severe Silurian Cyrtograptus lundgreni Event. The new species has a unique, previously undescribed form of finite rhabdosome. Unlike the species Spinograptus reticulolawsoni and S. lawsoni, in which the fi− nite rhabdosomes taper distally, its rhabdosome is parallel−sided with the two distal thecae developed as isolated tubes without genicular processes, with a small appendix between them. The new species also has preserved membranes of the sicula, thecae and ancora sleeve, similar to a few species of Spinograptus from the lower Homerian. Spinograptus tubothecalis, like Spinograptus clathrospinosus and S. spinosus, has paired reticulofusellar genicular processes on the pre−thecal ventral orifices, similar to but shorter than thecal processes. Transverse rods, a rare character in post−Cyrto− graptus lundgreni Event retiolitids occur in the new species in rudimentary form.
Źródło:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2013, 58, 1
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
New craniodental material of the typotherian notoungulates from the upper Oligocene of Mendoza, central-western Argentina and their taxonomical importance
Autorzy:
Hernandez Del Pino, S.
Seoane, F.D.
Cerdeno, E.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/31341361.pdf
Data publikacji:
2022
Wydawca:
Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:
paleontology
new material
craniodental material
typotherian notoungulate
notoungulate
Notoungulata
fossil mammal
Mammalia
Archaeohyracidae
Hegetotheriidae
Interatheriidae
Agua de la Piedra Formation
Deseadan
Mendoza province
Oligocene
Upper Oligocene
Mendoza
Argentina
taxonomy
Źródło:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2022, 67, 4; 983-997
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
A Cretaceous mammal from Tanzania
Autorzy:
Krause, D W
Gottfried, M.D.
O'Connor, P.M.
Roberts, E.M.
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/23042.pdf
Data publikacji:
2003
Wydawca:
Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
Tematy:
mammal
Gondwana
Cretaceous
Mammalia
Africa
Tanzania
Gondwanatheria
paleontology
Opis:
We report here the discovery of a Cretaceous mammal from the “Red Sandstone Group” of southwestern Tanzania. This specimen is one of only a very few Cretaceous mammals known from Gondwana in general and Africa in particular. The specimen consists of a short, deep left dentary that bore a large, procumbent central incisor, and five single−rooted, hypsodont cheek−teeth. The specimen is very tentatively identified as a sudamericid, and thus may represent the first African record of an enigmatic clade of mammals, the Gondwanatheria, which is otherwise known from the Late Cretaceous and Paleogene of several other Gondwanan landmasses. Unfortunately, the precise age of the specimen could not be determined. If it is pre−Campanian and if its identity as a sudamercid is corroborated through subsequent discoveries, it represents the earliest known gondwanatherian. If the specimen is from the Campanian or Maastrichtian, and again assuming its identification is correct, it has the potential to refute a recently formulated biogeographic hypothesis predicting the absence of certain terrestrial and freshwater vertebrate taxa, including gondwanatherians, in Africa (i.e., those that evolved elsewhere on Gondwana after Africa became an isolated landmass).
Źródło:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2003, 48, 3
0567-7920
Pojawia się w:
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł

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