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A Jurassic ceratosaur from China helps clarify avian digital homologies

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作者Xu, Xing1; Clark, James M.2; Mo, Jinyou3,4; Choiniere, Jonah2; Forster, Catherine A.2; Erickson, Gregory M.5; Hone, David W. E.1; Sullivan, Corwin1; Eberth, David A.6; Nesbitt, Sterling7
刊名NATURE
出版日期2009-06-18
卷号459期号:7249页码:940-944
ISSN号0028-0836
关键词Abelisauroid Dinosauria Theropoda Evolution Hand Differentiation Madagascar Expression Morphology Reduction Patterns
文献子类Article
英文摘要Theropods have traditionally been assumed to have lost manual digits from the lateral side inward, which differs from the bilateral reduction pattern seen in other tetrapod groups. This unusual reduction pattern is clearly present in basal theropods, and has also been inferred in non-avian tetanurans based on identification of their three digits as the medial ones of the hand (I-II-III). This contradicts the many developmental studies indicating II-III-IV identities for the three manual digits of the only extant tetanurans, the birds. Here we report a new basal ceratosaur from the Oxfordian stage of the Jurassic period of China (156-161 million years ago), representing the first known Asian ceratosaur and the only known beaked, herbivorous Jurassic theropod. Most significantly, this taxon possesses a strongly reduced manual digit I, documenting a complex pattern of digital reduction within the Theropoda. Comparisons among theropod hands show that the three manual digits of basal tetanurans are similar in many metacarpal features to digits II-III-IV, but in phalangeal features to digits I-II-III, of more basal theropods. Given II-III-IV identities in avians, the simplest interpretation is that these identities were shared by all tetanurans. The transition to tetanurans involved complex changes in the hand including a shift in digit identities, with ceratosaurs displaying an intermediate condition.
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WOS关键词ABELISAUROID DINOSAURIA ; THEROPODA ; EVOLUTION ; HAND ; DIFFERENTIATION ; MADAGASCAR ; EXPRESSION ; MORPHOLOGY ; REDUCTION ; PATTERNS
WOS研究方向Science & Technology - Other Topics
语种英语
WOS记录号WOS:000267063500033
公开日期2013-11-27
源URL[http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4736]  
专题古脊椎动物与古人类研究所_图书馆1
通讯作者xingxu@vip.sina.com
作者单位1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China
2.George Washington Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Washington, DC 20052 USA
3.Nat Hist Museum Guangxi, Nanning 530012, Guangxi, Peoples R China
4.China Univ Geosci, Fac Earth Sci, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, Peoples R China
5.Florida State Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
6.Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, AB T0J 0Y0, Canada
7.Amer Museum Nat Hist, New York, NY 10024 USA
8.Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Geol, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico
9.Xinjiang Oilfield Co, Res Inst Explorat & Dev, Karamay 834000, Xinjiang, Peoples R China
10.Chinese Acad Sci, Grad Sch, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
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Xu, Xing,Clark, James M.,Mo, Jinyou,et al. A Jurassic ceratosaur from China helps clarify avian digital homologies[J]. NATURE,2009,459(7249):940-944.
APA Xu, Xing.,Clark, James M..,Mo, Jinyou.,Choiniere, Jonah.,Forster, Catherine A..,...&xingxu@vip.sina.com.(2009).A Jurassic ceratosaur from China helps clarify avian digital homologies.NATURE,459(7249),940-944.
MLA Xu, Xing,et al."A Jurassic ceratosaur from China helps clarify avian digital homologies".NATURE 459.7249(2009):940-944.

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