PL EN


Preferencje help
Widoczny [Schowaj] Abstrakt
Liczba wyników
2010 | 55 | 4 |

Tytuł artykułu

The oldest and youngest records of afrosoricid placentals from the Fayum Depression of northern Egypt

Autorzy

Treść / Zawartość

Warianty tytułu

Języki publikacji

EN

Abstrakty

EN
Tenrecs (Tenrecoidea) and golden moles(Chrysochloroidea) are among the most enigmatic mammals alive today. Molecular data strongly support their inclusion in the morphologically diverse clade Afrotheria, and suggest that the two lineages split near the K−T boundary, but the only undoubted fossil representatives of each superfamily are from early Miocene (~20 Ma) deposits in East Africa. A recent analysis of partial mandibles and maxillae of Eochrysochloris, Jawharia, and Widanelfarasia, from the latest Eocene and earliest Oligocene of Egypt, led to the suggestion that the derived “zalambdomorph” molar occlusal pattern (i.e., extreme reduction or loss of upper molar metacones and lower molar talonids) seen in tenrecoids and chrysochloroids evolved independently in the two lineages, and that tenrecoids might be derived from a dilambdomorph group of “insectivoran−grade” placentals that includes forms such as Widanelfarasia. Here I describe the oldest afrosoricid from the Fayum region, ~37 Ma Dilambdogale gheerbranti gen. et sp. nov., and the youngest, ~30 Ma Qatranilestes oligocaenus gen. et sp. nov. Dilambdogale is the most generalized of the Fayum afrosoricids, exhibiting relatively broad and well−developed molar talonids and a dilambdomorph arrangement of the buccal crests on the upper molars, whereas Qatranilestesis the most derived in showing relatively extreme reduction of molar talonids. These occurrences are consistent with a scenario in which features of the zalambdomorph occlusal complex were acquired independently and gradually through the later Paleogene. Phylogenetic analysis places Dilambdogale and Widanelfarasia as sister taxa to the exclusion of crown afrosoricids, but derived features that these taxa share with early Miocene Protenrec hint at the possibility that both taxa might be stem tenrecoids. Late Paleocene Todralestes and Afrodon from Morocco are similarly placed as stem afrosoricids, indicating that African adapisoriculids (including Garatherium) might also be relevant to the origin of the tenrecoid and chrysochloroid clades.

Wydawca

-

Rocznik

Tom

55

Numer

4

Opis fizyczny

p.599-616,fig.,ref.

Twórcy

  • Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, 11794-8081, USA

Bibliografia

  • Amrine−Madsen, H., Koepfli, K.−P., Wayne, R.K., and Springer, M.S. 2003. A new phylogenetic marker, apolipoprotein B, provides compelling evidence for eutherian relationships. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 28: 225–240. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1055-7903 (03)00118-0
  • Arnason, U., Adegoke, J.A., Gullberg, A., Harley, E.H., Janke, A., and Kullberg, M. 2008. Mitogenomic relationships of placental mammals and molecular estimates of their divergences. Gene 421: 37–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2008.05.024
  • Asher, R.J. 2005. Insectivoran−grade placentals. In: K.D. Rose and J.D. Archibald (eds.), The Rise of Placental Mammals: Origins and Relationships of the Major Extant Clades, 50–70. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
  • Asher, R.J. 2007. A web−database of mammalian morphology and a reanalysis of placental phylogeny. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7 (108): 1–10.
  • Asher, R.J. and Avery, D.M. 2010. New golden moles (Afrotheria, Chrysochloridae) from the Pliocene of South Africa. Paleontologica Electronica 13 (1): 3A.
  • Asher, R.J. and Helgen, K.M. 2010. Nomenclature and placental mammal phylogeny. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10 (102): 1–9.
  • Asher, R.J. and Hofreiter, M. 2006. Tenrec phylogeny and the noninvasive extraction of nuclear DNA. Systematic Biology 55: 181–194. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10635150500433649
  • Asher, R.J. and Sanchez−Villagra, M.R. 2005. Locking yourself out: diversity among dentally zalambdodont therian mammals. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 12: 265–282. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10914-005-5725-3
  • Asher, R.J. and Seiffert, E.R. 2010. Systematics of endemic African mammals. In: W.J. Sanders and L. Werdelin (eds.), Cenozoic Mammals of Africa, 911–928. University of California Press, Berkeley.
  • Asher, R.J., Novacek, M.J., and Geisler, J.H. 2003. Relationships of endemic African mammals and their fossil relatives based on morphological and molecular evidence. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 10: 131–194. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1025504124129
  • Barrow, E., Seiffert, E.R., and Simons, E.L. 2010. A primitive hyracoid (Mammalia, Paenungulata) from the early Priabonian (late Eocene) of Egypt. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 8: 213–244.
  • Boyer, D.M., Prasad, G.V.R., Krause, D.W., Godinot, M., Goswami, A., Verma, O., and Flynn, J.J. 2010. New postcrania of Deccanolestesfrom the Late Cretaceous of India and their bearing on the evolutionary and biogeographic history of euarchontan mammals. Naturwissenschaften 97: 365–377. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-010-0648-0
  • Butler, P.M. 1969. Insectivores and bats from the Miocene of East Africa: new material. In: L.S.B. Leakey (ed.), Fossil Vertebrates of Africa, 1–37. Academic Press, London.
  • Butler, P.M. 1972. The problem of insectivore classification. In: K.A. Joysey and T.S. Kemp (eds.), Studies in Vertebrate Evolution, 253–265. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh.
  • Butler, P.M. 1978. Insectivora and Chiroptera. In: V.J. Maglio and H.B.S. Cooke (eds.), Evolution of African Mammals, 56–68. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.
  • Butler, P.M. 1984. Macroscelidea, Insectivora and Chiroptera from the Miocene of east Africa. Palaeovertebrata 14: 117–200.
  • Butler, P.M. 1988. Phylogeny of the insectivores. In: M.J. Benton (ed.), The Phylogeny and Classification of the Tetrapods, Volume 2: Mammals, 117–141. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
  • Butler, P.M. and Hopwood, A.T. 1957. Insectivora and Chiroptera from the Miocene rocks of Kenya colony. Fossil Mammals of Africa 13: 1–35.
  • Crochet, J.−Y. 1984. Garatherium mahboubii nov. gen., nov. sp., marsupial de l'Eocène inférieur d'El Kohol (Sud Oranais, Algérie). Annales de Paléontologie 70: 275–294.
  • Crochet, J.−Y. 1988. Le plus ancien Créodonte africain: Koholia atlasense nov. gen., nov. sp. (Eocène inférieur d'El Kohol, Atlas saharien, Algérie). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences Paris, Ser. II 307: 1795–1798.
  • Crochet, J.−Y. and Sigé, B. 1983. Les Mammifères montiens de Hainin (Paléocène de Belgique). Part III. Marsupiaux. Palaeovertebrata 13: 51–64.
  • Douady, C.J., Catzeflis, F., Raman, J., Springer, M.S., and Stanhope, M.J. 2003. The Sahara as a vicariant agent, and the role of Miocene climatic events, in the diversification of the mammalian order Macroscelidea (elephant shrews). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 100: 8325–8330. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0832467100
  • Douady, C.J. and Douzery, E.J.P. 2003. Molecular estimation of eulipotyphlan divergence times and the evolution of “Insectivora”. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 28: 285–296. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1055-7903 (03)00119-2
  • Gheerbrant, E. 1988. Afrodon chleuhi nov. gen., nov. sp., “insectivores” (Mammalia, Eutheria) lipotyphlé (?), du Paléocène marocain: données préliminaires. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences Paris II 307: 1303–1309.
  • Gheerbrant, E. 1991a. Bustylus (Eutheria, Adapisoriculidae) and the absence of ascertained marsupials in the Palaeocene of Europe. Terra Nova 3: 586–592. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3121.1991.tb00200.x
  • Gheerbrant, E. 1991b. Todralestes variablis n. g., n. sp., nouveau Proteuthérien (Eutheria, Todralestidae fam. nov.) du Paléocène du Maroc. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences Paris, Ser. II 312: 1249–1255.
  • Gheerbrant, E. 1992. Les mammifères paléocenes du Bassin d'Ouarzazate (Maroc). I. Introduction général et palaeoryctidae. Palaeontographica, Abteilung A 224: 67–132.
  • Gheerbrant, E. 1993. Premières données sur les mammifères “insectivores” de l'Yprésian du Bassin d'Ouarzazate (Maroc: site de N'Tagourt 2). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhhandlungen 187: 225–242.
  • Gheerbrant, E. 1994. Les mammifères paléocenes du Bassin d'Ouarzazate (Maroc). II. Todralestidae (Proteutheria, Eutheria). Palaeontographica, Abteilung A 231: 133–188.
  • Gheerbrant, E. 1995. Les mammifères paléocènes du Bassin d'Ouarzazate (Maroc). III. Adapisoriculidae et autres mammifères (Carnivora, ?Creodonta, Condylarthra, ?Ungulata et incertae sedis). Palaeontographica, Abteilung A 237: 39–132.
  • Gheerbrant, E. 2009. Paleocene emergence of elephant relatives and the rapid radiation of African ungulates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106: 10717–10721. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0900251106
  • Gheerbrant, E. and Hartenberger, J.−L. 1999. Nouveau mammifère insectivore (?Lipotyphla, ?Erinaceomorpha) de l'Eocène inférieur de Chambi (Tunisie). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 73: 143–156.
  • Gheerbrant, E., Sudre, J., Sen, S., Abrial, C., Marandat, B., Sigé, B., and Vianey−Liaud, M. 1998. Nouvelles données sur les mammifères du Thanétien et de l'Yprésian du Bassin d'Ouarzazate (Maroc) et leur contexte stratigraphique. Palaeovertebrata 27: 155–202.
  • Gilbert, C., O'Brien, P.C., Bronner, G., Yang, F., Hassanin, A., Ferguson−Smith, M.A., and Robinson, T.J. 2006. Chromosome painting and molecular dating indicate a low rate of chromosomal evolution in golden moles (Mammalia, Chrysochloridae). Chromosome Research 14: 793–803. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10577-006-1091-0
  • Gill, T. 1883. On the classification of the insectivorous mammals. Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington 5: 118–120.
  • Gray, J.E. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. London Medical Repository 15: 296–310.
  • Gunnell, G.F., Simons, E.L., and Seiffert, E.R. 2008. New bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from the late Eocene and early Oligocene, Fayum Depression, Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28: 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1671/0272-4634 (2008)28[1:NBMCFT]2.0.CO;2
  • Kellogg, M.E., Burkett, S., Dennis, T.R., Stone, G., Gray, B.A., McGuire, P.M., Zori, R.T., and Stanyon, R. 2007. Chromosome painting in the manatee supports Afrotheria and Paenungulata. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 6.
  • Kielan−Jaworowska, Z., Cifelli, R.L., and Luo, Z.−X. 2004. Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and Structure. 630 pp. Columbia University Press, New York.
  • Kitazoe, Y., Kishino, H., Waddell, P.J., Nakajima, N., Okabayashi, T., Watabe, T., and Okuhara, Y. 2007. Robust time estimation reconciles views of the antiquity of placental mammals. PLoS ONE 2 (4): e384. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000384
  • Lopatin, A. 2006. Early Paleogene insectivore mammals of Asia and establishment of the major groups of Insectivora. Paleontological Journal 40, supplement 3: S205–S405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S0031030106090012
  • Maddison, W.P. and Maddison, D.R. 2005. Mesquite: A modular system for evolutionary analysis, Version 1.06. http://mesquiteproject.org/
  • Madsen, O., Scally, M., Douady, C.J., Kao, D.J., DeBry, R.W., Adkins, R., Amrine, H.M., Stanhope, M.J., de Jong, W.W., and Springer, M.S. 2001. Parallel adaptive radiations in two major clades of placental mammals. Nature 409: 610–614. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/35054544
  • Mahboubi, M., Ameur, R., Crochet, J.−Y., and Jaeger, J.−J. 1986. El Kohol (Saharan Atlas, Algeria): A new Eocene mammal locality in northwestern Africa. Palaeontographica, Abteilung A 192: 15–49.
  • McDowell, S.B. 1958. The Greater Antillean insectivores. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 115: 115–214.
  • Murata, Y., Nikaido, M., Sasaki, T., Cao, Y., Fukumoto, Y., Hasegawa, M., and Okada, N. 2003. Afrotherian phylogeny inferred from complete mitochondrial genomes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 28: 253–260. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1055-7903 (03)00035-6
  • Murphy, W.J., Eizirik, E., O'Brien, S.J., Madsen, O., Scally, M., Douady, C.J., Teeling, E., Ryder, O.A., Stanhope, M.J., de Jong, W.W., and Springer, M.S. 2001. Resolution of the early placental mammal radiation using Bayesian phylogenetics. Science 294: 2348–2351. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1067179
  • Nikaido, M., Nishihara, H., Hukumoto, Y., and Okada, N. 2003. Ancient SINEs from African endemic mammals. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20: 522–527. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msg052
  • Poux, C., Madsen, O., Glos, J., de Jong, W.W., and Vences, M. 2008. Molecular phylogeny and divergence times of Malagasy tenrecs: Influence of data partitioning and taxon sampling on dating analyses. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8: 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-102
  • Prasad, G.V.R. and Godinot, M. 1994. Eutherian tarsal bones from the late Cretaceous of India. Journal of Paleontology 68: 892–902.
  • Prasad, G.V.R., Verma, O., Gheerbrant, E., Goswami, A., Khosla, A., Parmar, V., and Sahni, A. 2010. First mammal evidence from the Late Cretaceous of India for biotic dispersal between India and Africa at the KT transition. Comptes Rendus Palevol 9: 63–71.
  • Rana, R.S. and Wilson, G.P. 2003. New Late Cretaceous mammals from the Intertrappean beds of Rangapur, India and paleobiogeographic framework. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48: 331–348.
  • Robinson, T.J. and Seiffert, E.R. 2004. Afrotherian origins and interrelationships: New views and future prospects.Currents Topics in Developmental Biology 63: 37–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0070-2153 (04)63002-X
  • Robinson, T.J., Fu, B., Ferguson−Smith, M.A., and Yang, F. 2004. Cross−species chromosome painting in the golden mole and elephant−shrew: support for the mammalian clades Afrotheria and Afroinsectiphillia but not Afroinsectivora. Proceedings of the Royal Society London, B 271: 1477–1484. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2004.2754
  • Roca, A.L., Bar−Gal, G.K., Eizirik, E., Helgen, K.M., Maria, R., Springer, M.S., O’Brien, S.J., and Murphy, W.J. 2004. Mesozoic origin for West Indian insectivores. Nature 429: 649–651. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature02597
  • Sallam, H., Seiffert, E.R., and Simons, E.L. 2010a. A highly derived anomalurid rodent (Mammalia) from the earliest late Eocene of Egypt. Palaeontology 53: 803–813.
  • Sallam, H., Seiffert, E.R., Boyer, D.M., and Simons, E.L. 2010b. Postcranial morphology of an anomaluroid rodent from the late Eocene of Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (Supplement): 155A.
  • Sallam, H.M., Seiffert, E.R., Simons, E.L., and Brindley, C. 2010c. A large−bodied anomaluroid rodent from the earliest late Eocene of Egypt: Phylogenetic and biogeographic implications. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30: 1579–1593.
  • Salton, J.A. and Sargis, E.J. 2008. Evolutionary morphology of the Tenrecoidea (Mammalia) forelimb skeleton. In: E.J. Sargis and M. Dagosto (eds.), Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology: A Tribute to Frederick S. Szalay, 51–71. Springer, New York.
  • Seiffert, E.R. 2002. The reality of afrotherian monophyly, and some of its implications for the evolution and conservation of Afro−Arabia's endemic placental mammals. Afrotherian Conservation 1: 3–6.
  • Seiffert, E.R. 2006. Revised age estimates for the later Paleogene mammal faunas of Egypt and Oman. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA103: 5000–5005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0600689103
  • Seiffert, E.R. 2007. A new estimate of afrotherian phylogeny based on simultaneous analysis of genomic, morphological, and fossil evidence.BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 224. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-7-224
  • Seiffert, E.R. 2010. Paleogene “insectivores”. In: W.J. Sanders and L. Werdelin (eds.), Cenozoic Mammals of Africa, 253–260. University of California Press, Berkeley.
  • Seiffert, E.R. and Simons, E.L. 2000. Widanelfarasia, a diminutive placental from the late Eocene of Egypt. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 97: 2646–2651. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.040549797
  • Seiffert, E.R., Bown, T.M., Clyde, W.C., and Simons, E.L. 2008. Geology, paleoenvironment, and age of Birket Qarun locality 2 (BQ−2), Fayum Depression, Egypt. In: J.G. Fleagle and C.C. Gilbert (eds.), Elwyn L. Simons: A Search for Origins, 71–86. Springer, New York.
  • Seiffert, E.R., Simons, E.L., Ryan, T.M., Bown, T.M., and Attia, Y. 2007. New remains of Eocene and Oligocene Afrosoricida (Afrotheria) from Egypt, with implications for the origin (s) of afrosoricid zalambdodonty. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27 (4): 963–972. http://dx.doi.org/10.1671/0272-4634 (2007)27[963:NROEAO]2.0.CO;2
  • Simmons, N.B. and Geisler, J.H. 1998. Phylogenetic relationships of Icaronycteris, Archaeonycteris, Hassianycteris, and Palaeochiropteryx to extant bat lineages, with comments on the evolution of echolocation and foraging strategies in Microchiroptera. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 235: 4–182.
  • Smith, T., De Bast, E., and Sigé, B. 2009. Adapisoriculid mammals from the Paleocene of Hainin (Belgium) shed light on the phylogenetic affinities of the enigmatic arboreal Cretaceous Deccanolestes from the Deccan Traps of India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29: 183A.
  • Springer, M.S., Cleven, G.C., Madsen, O., de Jong, W.W., Waddell, V.G., Amrine, H.M., and Stanhope, M.J. 1997. Endemic African mammals shake the phylogenetic tree. Nature 388: 61–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/40386
  • Springer, M.S., Murphy, W.J., Eizirik, E., and O'Brien, S.J. 2003. Placental mammal diversification and the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 100: 1056–1061. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0334222100
  • Springer, M.S., Stanhope, M.J., Madsen, O., and de Jong, W.W. 2004. Molecules consolidate the placental mammal tree. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19: 430–438. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2004.05.006
  • Stanhope, M.J., Waddell, V.G., Madsen, O., de Jong, W., Hedges, S.B., Cleven, G.C., Kao, D., and Springer, M.S. 1998. Molecular evidence for multiple origins of Insectivora and for a new order of endemic African insectivore mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 95: 9967–9972. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.95.17.9967
  • Storch, G. 2008. Skeletal remains of a diminutive primate from the Paleocene of Germany. Naturwissenschaften 95: 927–930. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-008-0401-0
  • Swofford, D.L. 1998. PAUP* Phylogenetic Analysis Using Parsimony (*and Other Methods), Version 4. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.
  • Tabuce, R., Asher, R.J., and Lehmann, T. 2008. Afrotherian mammals: a review of current data. Mammalia 72: 2–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/MAMM.2008.004
  • Waddell, P.J. and Shelley, S. 2003. Evaluating placental inter−ordinal phylogenies with novel sequences including RAG1, ?−fibrinogen, ND6, and mt−tRNA, plus MCMC−driven nucleotide, amino acid, and codon models. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 28: 197–224. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1055-7903 (03)00115-5
  • Wible, J.R., Rougier, G.W., Novacek, M.J., and Asher, R.J. 2007. Cretaceous eutherians and Laurasian origin for placental mammals near the K/T boundary. Nature 447: 1003–1006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature05854
  • Yang, F., Alkalaeva, E.Z., Perelman, P.L., Pardini, A.T., Harrison, W.R., O'Brian, P.C.M., Fu, B., Graphodatsky, A.S., Ferguson−Smith, M.A., and Robinson, T.J. 2003. Reciprocal chromosome painting among human, aardvark, and elephant (superorder Afrotheria) reveals the likely eutherian ancestral karyotype. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 100 (3): 1062–1066. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0335540100

Typ dokumentu

Bibliografia

Identyfikatory

Identyfikator YADDA

bwmeta1.element.agro-0ae1e81e-781c-47ee-85ee-61cb00eabcec
JavaScript jest wyłączony w Twojej przeglądarce internetowej. Włącz go, a następnie odśwież stronę, aby móc w pełni z niej korzystać.