KMS Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
Allometric wing growth links parental care to pterosaur giantism | |
Yang, Zixiao1,2; Jiang, Baoyu3; Benton, Michael J. J.4; Xu, Xing5,6![]() | |
2023-07-26 | |
发表期刊 | PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
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ISSN | 0962-8452 |
卷号 | 290期号:2003页码:11 |
摘要 | Pterosaurs evolved a broad range of body sizes, from small-bodied early forms with wingspans of mostly 1-2 m to the last-surviving giants with sizes of small airplanes. Since all pterosaurs began life as small hatchlings, giant forms must have attained large adult sizes through new growth strategies, which remain largely unknown. Here we assess wing ontogeny and performance in the giant Pteranodon and the smaller-bodied anurognathids Rhamphorhynchus, Pterodactylus and Sinopterus. We show that most smaller-bodied pterosaurs shared negative allometry or isometry in the proximal elements of the fore- and hindlimbs, which were critical elements for powering both flight and terrestrial locomotion, whereas these show positive allometry in Pteranodon. Such divergent growth allometry typically signals different strategies in the precocial-altricial spectrum, suggesting more altricial development in Pteranodon. Using a biophysical model of powered and gliding flight, we test and reject the hypothesis that an aerodynamically superior wing planform could have enabled Pteranodon to attain its larger body size. We therefore propose that a shift from a plesiomorphic precocial state towards a derived state of enhanced parental care may have relaxed the constraints of small body sizes and allowed the evolution of derived flight anatomies critical for the flying giants. |
关键词 | giantism growth allometry flight Pterosauria wing shape |
DOI | 10.1098/rspb.2023.1102 |
关键词[WOS] | DIFFERENTIAL PREDATION ; BODY-SIZE ; EVOLUTION ; MORPHOLOGY ; FLIGHT ; PTERODACTYLOIDEA ; CONSTRAINT ; SPECIMEN ; TAXONOMY ; MASS |
收录类别 | SCI |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS研究方向 | Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology |
WOS类目 | Biology ; Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology |
WOS记录号 | WOS:001032010300001 |
出版者 | ROYAL SOC |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/22774 |
专题 | 中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所 |
通讯作者 | Yang, Zixiao |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Coll Cork, Sch Biol Earth & Environm Sci, Cork T23 TK30, Ireland 2.Environm Res Inst, Ellen Hutchins Bldg,Lee Rd, Cork T23 XE10, Ireland 3.Nanjing Univ, Ctr Res & Educ Biol Evolut & Environm, Sch Earth Sci & Engn, Nanjing 210023, Peoples R China 4.Univ Bristol, Sch Earth Sci, Life Sci Bldg,Tyndall Ave, Bristol BS8 1TQ, England 5.Yunnan Univ, Ctr Vertebrate Evolutionary Biol, Kunming 650031, Peoples R China 6.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 7.Queen Mary Univ London, Sch Biol & Behav Sci, Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS, England |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Yang, Zixiao,Jiang, Baoyu,Benton, Michael J. J.,et al. Allometric wing growth links parental care to pterosaur giantism[J]. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,2023,290(2003):11. |
APA | Yang, Zixiao,Jiang, Baoyu,Benton, Michael J. J.,Xu, Xing,McNamara, Maria E. E.,&Hone, David W. E..(2023).Allometric wing growth links parental care to pterosaur giantism.PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,290(2003),11. |
MLA | Yang, Zixiao,et al."Allometric wing growth links parental care to pterosaur giantism".PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 290.2003(2023):11. |
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