A reply to a comment on Lemanis (2020): The ammonite septum is not an adaptation to deep water
A reply to a comment on Lemanis (2020): The ammonite septum is not an adaptation to deep water
复制标题
对 Lemanis (2020) 的评论的回复:菊石隔膜不是对深水的适应
DOI:
10.1098/rspb.2021.0068
复制
发表时间:
2020
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
Lemanis
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Lemanis
In a recent comment on a paper I published last year [1], examining how several morphological parameters can differentially influence the strength of an ammonoid shell [2], the commenter makes two major criticisms:(1) the paper focuses entirely on the Buckland model and ignores the Pfaff model; and (2) the modelled septa are not complex enough, along with a few more minor criticisms. In a short summary, the Buckland and Pfaff models are two ideas about how hydrostatic pressure would interact with the septa. The Buckland model states that the more complex septa buttress the shell wall from lateral pressure, modelled in the commented paper [2], while the Pfaff model suggests the more complex septa improve the final-formed septum’s resistance to hydrostatic pressure from the body chamber [3, 4]. It is certainly true we do not model a body chamber and thus effectively ignore the Pfaff model. It is worth noting that tests on CT-based, empirical models are inconsistent with the Pfaff model when modelling different septal morphologies in Cadoceras [5]. Furthermore, including the more complicated septa of a sub-adult Kosmoceras, seen in [6], does nothing to validate this hypothesis; though this does not address the Pfaff model to the same degree as the Buckland model was in the commented paper. This criticism and the resulting discussion seem to be born out of the idea that the goal of this paper was to try to model and predict the failure of a real shell. This is not the case; in fact, as was explained in the introduction, I attempted to deconstruct the important morphological parameters of real shells and individually test their relative contribution to the final structure’s strength. To do this one needs to create simplified models of the shell for comparative testing.The commenter extends this criticism to discuss which part of the shell is the weakest, ultimately coming to the conclusion that the final-formed septum would be the first structure to fail under water pressure, citing an earlier paper I had written looking at FEA results from several CT-based shell models [5]. It is important to recognize however, that neither the paper being commented on nor the earlier paper are looking at which structure in the real shell would fail first nor how a real shell would fail under water pressure. This question would require a more sophisticated set of material properties (which are not fully known) and validation studies to even begin to address. In both cases, the topic being addressed is the potential function of the septa, thereby making this conversation slightly tangential. That being said it is not currently known if the final septum is the weakest structure. As pointed out in the implosion experiments on Nautilus, either the final septum or the siphuncle is the first structure to fail but the exact order is not known [7]. The earlier paper of mine [5] explicitly left out the siphuncle from the models, hence why we did not comment on it. If the siphuncle is indeed the weakest structure, by the commenter’s own reasoning, this entire discussion about septa and water depth is somewhat pointless. Tied to this discussion, is a comment about the unrealistic wall thickness. Again, the ‘unrealistic’structure of the models used is all that is necessary for the questions being asked. For example, when trying to understand how different septal morphologies affect the final structure’s strength, taking different models with the exact same parameters, such
登录
查看更多内容
影响因子:
2.7
作者:
Lemanis R;Zachow S;Hoffmann R
通讯作者:
Hoffmann R
DOI:
--
发表时间:
1997
期刊:
Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen
影响因子:
--
作者:
R. Hewitt;G. Westermann
通讯作者:
G. Westermann
影响因子:
2.7
作者:
KANIE, Y;FUKUDA, Y;HATTORI, M
通讯作者:
HATTORI, M
影响因子:
2.7
作者:
G. Westermann
通讯作者:
G. Westermann
DOI:
--
发表时间:
2007
期刊:
影响因子:
--
作者:
R. Hewitt;G. Westermann
通讯作者:
G. Westermann