A Cretaceous symmetrodont therian with some monotreme-like postcranial features
A Cretaceous symmetrodont therian with some monotreme-like postcranial features
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白垩纪对称齿兽类,具有一些类似单孔类的颅后特征
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A new spalacotheriid mammal preserved with a complete postcranium and a partial skull has been discovered from the Yixian Formation,,of Liaoning, China. Spalacotheroid symmetrodonts,,,,,,,are relatives to modern therians (combined group of marsupials and placentals) and are characterized by many skeletal apomorphies of therians. But unlike the closely related spalacotheroids and living therians, this new mammal revealed some surprisingly convergent features to monotremes in the lumbar vertebrae, pelvis and hindlimb,. These peculiar features may have developed as functional convergence to locomotory features of monotremes, or the presence of lumbar ribs in this newly discovered mammal and their absence in its close relatives might be due to evolutionary developmental homoplasy. Analysis including this new taxon suggests that spalacotheroids evolved earlier in Eurasia and then dispersed to North America, in concordance with prevailing geodispersal patterns of several common mammalian groups during the Early Cretaceous period.
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影响因子:
2
作者:
W. Clemens
通讯作者:
W. Clemens
DOI:
10.1111/j.1502-3931.1994.tb01578.x
发表时间:
1994-12
期刊:
Fossils and Strata
影响因子:
--
作者:
Z. Kielan;P. P. Gambaryan-P.
通讯作者:
Z. Kielan;P. P. Gambaryan-P.
DOI:
10.1111/j.1755-6724.2003.tb00104.x
发表时间:
2003-03
期刊:
Acta Geologica Sinica ‐ English Edition
影响因子:
--
作者:
G. Rougier;Ji Qiang;M. Novacek
通讯作者:
G. Rougier;Ji Qiang;M. Novacek
影响因子:
64.8
作者:
Ji Qiang;Luo Zhexi;Shu-an Ji
通讯作者:
Ji Qiang;Luo Zhexi;Shu-an Ji
影响因子:
1.8
作者:
Zhe‐Xi Luo;Z. Kielan-Jaworowska;R. Cifelli
通讯作者:
Zhe‐Xi Luo;Z. Kielan-Jaworowska;R. Cifelli