Soft body reconstruction of a reptile fossil by the nondestructive elemental mapping with a newly designed XRF
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| 作者 | Wang, Wei1 ; Shu, Ling; Wang, Deqi
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| 刊名 | ISLAND ARC
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| 出版日期 | 2023 |
| 卷号 | 32期号:1页码:9 |
| 关键词 | element mapping evolution sauropterygian fossil soft-tissue reconstruction X-ray fluorescence |
| ISSN号 | 1038-4871 |
| DOI | 10.1111/iar.12495 |
| 通讯作者 | Wang, Wei(weiwang@nigpas.ac.cn) |
| 英文摘要 | Vertebrate fossils usually consist only of mineralized skeletons and rarely preserve soft body parts. However, the buried soft body releases the degraded material into the surrounding sediments. The degraded material can be preserved as invisible signals of some chemicals or authigenic minerals, which can be revealed by the elemental distribution of the fossils' surface and their surrounding rock. As a method for surface elemental mapping, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) measurement requires the samples to be ground and polished as a mirror-like plane that keeps a stable distance of X-ray source-sample-detector. This destructive pretreatment is undesirable for precious fossils. To rectify this problem, a nondestructive XRF for element mapping of the fossils' 3D surface is newly invented. The new equipment can follow the 3D shape model to keep the distance for every XRF scanned point. We performed the element mapping of Ca and Fe on the surface of a marine sauropterygian fossil (Keichousaurus hui) and its surrounding sediments, and found that the soft tissue around the thoracic cage is thicker than the abdomen. The abnormal elemental distribution on the area of the angular and surangular of the skull can be explained as unprofessionally prepared. In addition, this research found that elemental mapping revealed the invisible signals of the paleoenvironment around fossils and information for the reconstruction of soft-tissue anatomy. We also give an example that based on the wide application of the "Internet of Things" and "Industrial Network," the design and development of specialized equipment for paleontologists' requirements are going simple. |
| WOS关键词 | PRESERVATION ; VERTEBRATES |
| 资助项目 | National Natural Science Foundation of China[42130206] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41227801] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41273004] ; Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB26000000] ; NSFC[42130206] |
| WOS研究方向 | Geology |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:001049736900001 |
| 出版者 | WILEY |
| 资助机构 | National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Chinese Academy of Sciences ; NSFC |
| 源URL | [http://ir.nigpas.ac.cn/handle/332004/42641]  |
| 专题 | 中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所 |
| 通讯作者 | Wang, Wei |
| 作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Nanjing Inst Geol & Paleontol, State Key Lab Paleobiol & Stratig, Nanjing, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Excellence Life & Palaeoenvironm, Nanjing, Peoples R China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Wang, Wei,Shu, Ling,Wang, Deqi. Soft body reconstruction of a reptile fossil by the nondestructive elemental mapping with a newly designed XRF[J]. ISLAND ARC,2023,32(1):9. |
| APA | Wang, Wei,Shu, Ling,&Wang, Deqi.(2023).Soft body reconstruction of a reptile fossil by the nondestructive elemental mapping with a newly designed XRF.ISLAND ARC,32(1),9. |
| MLA | Wang, Wei,et al."Soft body reconstruction of a reptile fossil by the nondestructive elemental mapping with a newly designed XRF".ISLAND ARC 32.1(2023):9. |
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来源：南京地质古生物研究所
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