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An X-radiographic and SEM study of the osseous inner ear of multituberculates and monotremes (Mammalia): implications for mammalian phylogeny and evolution of hearing

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作者Fox, RC; Meng, J; Fox, RC (reprint author), Univ Alberta, Dept Sci Biol, Lab Vertebrate Paleontol, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.
刊名ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
出版日期1997-11-01
卷号121期号:3页码:249-291
ISSN号0024-4082
关键词Anatomy Late Cretaceous Multituberculata North America
文献子类Review
英文摘要Multituberculate petrosals with well-presented, three-dimensional internal anatomy from the Late Cretaceous/early Paleocene Bug Creek Anthills, Montana, U.S.A., are described from X-radiographic and SEM images, as well as from conventional visual observations, and are compared with the anatomy of the osseous inner ear in monotremes and in primitive nontherian and therian mammals. Results of this study indicate that: (1) the cochlea of at least some multituberculates retained a lagena, previously known only in monotremes among mammals; (2) an enlarged vestibule evolved in several lineages of multituberculates independently, and hence is not a synapomorphy of the order; (3) the cochlear canal lacks osseous laminae in support of the short, wide basilar membrane, which was probably inefficient in responding to high-frequency airborne vibrations; and (4) consequently, bone-conducted bearing in some multituberculate species may have been important in interpretation of their surroundings. Comparisons with the inner ear of monotremes and primitive therians indicate that curvature of the cochlea and cribriform plates for passage of vestibulocochlear nerve branches through the petrosal are unlikely homologues between monotremes and therians. From non-therian to therian mammals, there is a distinct morphological gap in the inner ear transition, characterized by acquisition of a number of neomorphs in the therian inner ear; an intermediate stage has yet to be discovered. (C) 1997 The Linnean Society of London.; Multituberculate petrosals with well-presented, three-dimensional internal anatomy from the Late Cretaceous/early Paleocene Bug Creek Anthills, Montana, U.S.A., are described from X-radiographic and SEM images, as well as from conventional visual observations, and are compared with the anatomy of the osseous inner ear in monotremes and in primitive nontherian and therian mammals. Results of this study indicate that: (1) the cochlea of at least some multituberculates retained a lagena, previously known only in monotremes among mammals; (2) an enlarged vestibule evolved in several lineages of multituberculates independently, and hence is not a synapomorphy of the order; (3) the cochlear canal lacks osseous laminae in support of the short, wide basilar membrane, which was probably inefficient in responding to high-frequency airborne vibrations; and (4) consequently, bone-conducted bearing in some multituberculate species may have been important in interpretation of their surroundings. Comparisons with the inner ear of monotremes and primitive therians indicate that curvature of the cochlea and cribriform plates for passage of vestibulocochlear nerve branches through the petrosal are unlikely homologues between monotremes and therians. From non-therian to therian mammals, there is a distinct morphological gap in the inner ear transition, characterized by acquisition of a number of neomorphs in the therian inner ear; an intermediate stage has yet to be discovered. (C) 1997 The Linnean Society of London.
WOS关键词COCHLEA ; MORGANUCODON ; AUSTRALIA
WOS研究方向Zoology
语种英语
WOS记录号WOS:000071445300001
公开日期2013-11-27
源URL[http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4008]  
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通讯作者Fox, RC (reprint author), Univ Alberta, Dept Sci Biol, Lab Vertebrate Paleontol, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.
作者单位1.Univ Alberta, Dept Sci Biol, Lab Vertebrate Paleontol, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada
2.Amer Museum Nat Hist, Dept Vertebrate Paleontol, New York, NY 10024 USA
3.Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing, Peoples R China
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Fox, RC,Meng, J,Fox, RC . An X-radiographic and SEM study of the osseous inner ear of multituberculates and monotremes (Mammalia): implications for mammalian phylogeny and evolution of hearing[J]. ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY,1997,121(3):249-291.
APA Fox, RC,Meng, J,&Fox, RC .(1997).An X-radiographic and SEM study of the osseous inner ear of multituberculates and monotremes (Mammalia): implications for mammalian phylogeny and evolution of hearing.ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY,121(3),249-291.
MLA Fox, RC,et al."An X-radiographic and SEM study of the osseous inner ear of multituberculates and monotremes (Mammalia): implications for mammalian phylogeny and evolution of hearing".ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY 121.3(1997):249-291.

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