Embryology of Early Jurassic dinosaur from China with evidence of preserved organic remains
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| 作者 | Reisz, Robert R. ; Huang, Timothy D. ; Roberts, Eric M. ; Peng, ShinRung ; Sullivan, Corwin（舒柯文） ; Stein, Koen ; LeBlanc, Aaron R. H. ; Shieh, DarBin ; Chang, RongSeng ; Chiang, ChengCheng ; Yang, Chuanwei ; Zhong, Shiming |
| 刊名 | NATURE
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| 出版日期 | 2013 |
| 卷号 | 496期号:7444页码:210—214 |
| 关键词 | TYRANNOSAURUS-REX SOFT-TISSUE MASSOSPONDYLUS THEROPODS PROTEIN |
| ISSN号 | 0028-0836 |
| 通讯作者 | robert.reisz@utoronto.ca |
| 英文摘要 | Fossil dinosaur embryos are surprisingly rare, being almost entirely restricted to Upper Cretaceous strata that record the late stages of non-avian dinosaur evolution(1,2). Notable exceptions are the oldest known embryos from the Early Jurassic South African sauropodomorph Massospondylus(3,4) and Late Jurassic embryos of a theropod from Portugal(5). The fact that dinosaur embryos are rare and typically enclosed in eggshells limits their availability for tissue and cellular level investigations of development. Consequently, little is known about growth patterns in dinosaur embryos, even though post-hatching ontogeny has been studied in several taxa(6). Here we report the discovery of an embryonic dinosaur bone bed from the Lower Jurassic of China, the oldest such occurrence in the fossil record. The embryos are similar in geological age to those of Massospondylus and are also assignable to a sauropodomorph dinosaur, probably Lufengosaurus(7). The preservation of numerous disarticulated skeletal elements and eggshells in this monotaxic bone bed, representing different stages of incubation and therefore derived from different nests, provides opportunities for new investigations of dinosaur embryology in a clade noted for gigantism. For example, comparisons among embryonic femora of different sizes and developmental stages reveal a consistently rapid rate of growth throughout development, possibly indicating that short incubation times were characteristic of sauropodomorphs. In addition, asymmetric radial growth of the femoral shaft and rapid expansion of the fourth trochanter suggest that embryonic muscle activation played an important role in the pre-hatching ontogeny of these dinosaurs. This discovery also provides the oldest evidence of in situ preservation of complex organic remains in a terrestrial vertebrate. |
| 原文出处 | 10.1038/nature11978 |
| 公开日期 | 2013-11-27 |
| 源URL | [http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4180]  |
| 专题 | 古脊椎动物与古人类研究所_古低等脊椎动物研究室 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Reisz, Robert R.,Huang, Timothy D.,Roberts, Eric M.,et al. Embryology of Early Jurassic dinosaur from China with evidence of preserved organic remains[J]. NATURE,2013,496(7444):210—214. |
| APA | Reisz, Robert R..,Huang, Timothy D..,Roberts, Eric M..,Peng, ShinRung.,Sullivan, Corwin.,...&Zhong, Shiming.(2013).Embryology of Early Jurassic dinosaur from China with evidence of preserved organic remains.NATURE,496(7444),210—214. |
| MLA | Reisz, Robert R.,et al."Embryology of Early Jurassic dinosaur from China with evidence of preserved organic remains".NATURE 496.7444(2013):210—214. |
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来源：古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
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