Osteohistology of the Early Triassic ichthyopterygian reptile Utatsusaurus hataii: Implications for early ichthyosaur biology

• Autorzy: Nakajima Y. , Houssaye A. , Endo H.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Ichthyosaurs were highly adapted to a marine lifestyle, as shown by their fish-like body shape and their assumed active swimming abilities and high metabolic rates. However, the processes of adaptation to an aquatic life in the early stages of this lineage remain poorly understood. Here, we present the first osteohistological data concerning the most basal ichthyopterygian yet known, Utatsusaurus hataii, from the Lower Triassic of Japan. The cancellous bone structure suggests adaptation to active swimming in an open marine environment. Moreover, the possible occurrence of rapidly deposited bone tissue, in a fibrolamellar complex, suggests a higher metabolic rate than in modern poikilothermic reptiles, and therefore a trend toward homeothermy. This basal ichthyosaur, with its elongate body, was already more adapted to an aquatic lifestyle than expected from its morphology, and the process of adaptation to a marine lifestyle was already well advanced by the Early Triassic.

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
• Rocznik: 2014
• Tom: 59
• Numer: 2
• Opis fizyczny: p.343-352,fig.,ref.

Twórcy

autor

Nakajima Y.

• The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, 113-0033, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

autor

Houssaye A.

• Steinmann Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Palaeontology, University of Bonn, Nusallee 8, D-53115 Bonn, German

autor

Endo H.

• The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, 113-0033, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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DOI

2012.0045