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DOI | 10.1038/s41586-018-0388-4 |
The earliest bird-line archosaurs and the assembly of the dinosaur body plan | |
Nesbitt, Sterling J.1; Butler, Richard J.2; Ezcurra, Martin D.2,3; Barrett, Paul M.4; Stocker, Michelle R.1; Angielczyk, Kenneth D.5; Smith, Roger M. H.6,7; Sidor, Christian A.8,9; Niedzwiedzki, Grzegorz10; Sennikov, Andrey G.11,12; Charig, Alan J.4 | |
2017-04-27 | |
发表期刊 | NATURE |
ISSN | 0028-0836 |
EISSN | 1476-4687 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 544期号:7651页码:484-+ |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA; England; Argentina; South Africa; Sweden; Russia |
英文摘要 | The relationship between dinosaurs and other reptiles is well established(1-4), but the sequence of acquisition of dinosaurian features has been obscured by the scarcity of fossils with transitional morphologies. The closest extinct relatives of dinosaurs either have highly derived morphologies(5-7) or are known from poorly preserved(8,9) or incomplete material(10,11). Here we describe one of the stratigraphically lowest and phylogenetically earliest members of the avian stem lineage (Avemetatarsalia), Teleocrater rhadinus gen. et sp. nov., from the Middle Triassic epoch. The anatomy of T. rhadinus provides key information that unites several enigmatic taxa from across Pangaea into a previously unrecognized clade, Aphanosauria. This clade is the sister taxon of Ornithodira (pterosaurs and birds) and shortens the ghost lineage inferred at the base of Avemetatarsalia. We demonstrate that several anatomical features long thought to characterize Dinosauria and dinosauriforms evolved much earlier, soon after the bird-crocodylian split, and that the earliest avemetatarsalians retained the crocodylian-like ankle morphology and hindlimb proportions of stem archosaurs and early pseudosuchians. Early avemetatarsalians were substantially more species-rich, widely geographically distributed and morphologically diverse than previously recognized. Moreover, several early dinosauromorphs that were previously used as models to understand dinosaur origins may represent specialized forms rather than the ancestral avemetatarsalian morphology. |
领域 | 地球科学 ; 气候变化 ; 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000400051900044 |
WOS关键词 | EVOLUTIONARY RADIATION ; ORIGIN ; KAROO |
WOS类目 | Multidisciplinary Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Science & Technology - Other Topics |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/202939 |
专题 | 地球科学 资源环境科学 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Virginia Tech, Dept Geosci, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA; 2.Univ Birmingham, Sch Geog Earth & Environm Sci, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England; 3.Museo Argentino Ciencias Nat Bernardino Rivadavia, CONICET, Secc Paleontol Vertebrados, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina; 4.Nat Hist Museum, Dept Earth Sci, Cromwell Rd, London SW7 5BD, England; 5.Field Museum Nat Hist, Integrat Res Ctr, 1400 South Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60605 USA; 6.Univ Witwatersrand, Evolutionary Studies Inst, PO Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa; 7.Iziko South African Museum, POB 61, Cape Town, South Africa; 8.Univ Washington, Burke Museum, Seattle, WA 98195 USA; 9.Univ Washington, Dept Biol, Seattle, WA 98195 USA; 10.Uppsala Univ, Dept Organismal Biol, Norbyvagen 18A, S-75236 Uppsala, Sweden; 11.Russian Acad Sci, Borissiak Paleontol Inst, Profsoyuznaya 123, Moscow 117997, Russia; 12.Kazan Fed Univ, Kremlyovskaya Ul 18, Kazan 420008, Russia |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Nesbitt, Sterling J.,Butler, Richard J.,Ezcurra, Martin D.,et al. The earliest bird-line archosaurs and the assembly of the dinosaur body plan[J]. NATURE,2017,544(7651):484-+. |
APA | Nesbitt, Sterling J..,Butler, Richard J..,Ezcurra, Martin D..,Barrett, Paul M..,Stocker, Michelle R..,...&Charig, Alan J..(2017).The earliest bird-line archosaurs and the assembly of the dinosaur body plan.NATURE,544(7651),484-+. |
MLA | Nesbitt, Sterling J.,et al."The earliest bird-line archosaurs and the assembly of the dinosaur body plan".NATURE 544.7651(2017):484-+. |
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