Earliest known coelacanth skull extends the range of anatomically modern coelacanths to the Early Devonian | |
Zhu, Min1; Yu, Xiaobo1,2; Lu, Jing1; Qiao, Tuo1; Zhao, Wenjin1; Jia, Liantao1; [email protected] | |
2012-04-01 | |
发表期刊 | NATURE COMMUNICATIONS |
ISSN | 2041-1723 |
卷号 | 3页码:0—0 |
文章类型 | Article |
摘要 | Coelacanths are known for their evolutionary conservatism, and the body plan seen in Latimeria can be traced to late Middle Devonian Diplocercides, Holopterygius and presumably Euporosteus. However, the group's early history is unclear because of an incomplete fossil record. Until now, the only Early Devonian coelacanth is an isolated dentary (Eoactinistia) from Australia, whose position within the coelacanths is unknown. Here we report the earliest known coelacanth skull (Euporosteus yunnanensis sp. nov.) from the Early Devonian (late Pragian) of Yunnan, China. Resolved by maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses as crownward of Diplocercides or as its sister taxon, the new form extends the chronological range of anatomically modern coelacanths by about 17 M Myr. The finding lends support to the possibility that Eoactinistia is also an anatomically modern coelacanth, and provides a more refined reference point for studying the rapid early diversification and subsequent evolutionary conservatism of the coelacanths. |
关键词 | Latimeria-chalumnae Oldest Coelacanth Mixed Models Australia Fish Sarcopterygii Osteichthyes Inference Evolution Mrbayes |
WOS标题词 | Science & Technology |
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关键词[WOS] | LATIMERIA-CHALUMNAE ; OLDEST COELACANTH ; MIXED MODELS ; AUSTRALIA ; FISH ; SARCOPTERYGII ; OSTEICHTHYES ; INFERENCE ; EVOLUTION ; MRBAYES |
收录类别 | SCI |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS研究方向 | Science & Technology - Other Topics |
WOS类目 | Multidisciplinary Sciences |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000303455200009 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4305 |
专题 | 古低等脊椎动物研究室 |
通讯作者 | [email protected] |
作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Evolutionary Systemat Vertebrates, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Kean Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Union, NJ USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Zhu, Min,Yu, Xiaobo,Lu, Jing,et al. Earliest known coelacanth skull extends the range of anatomically modern coelacanths to the Early Devonian[J]. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS,2012,3:0—0. |
APA | Zhu, Min.,Yu, Xiaobo.,Lu, Jing.,Qiao, Tuo.,Zhao, Wenjin.,[email protected].(2012).Earliest known coelacanth skull extends the range of anatomically modern coelacanths to the Early Devonian.NATURE COMMUNICATIONS,3,0—0. |
MLA | Zhu, Min,et al."Earliest known coelacanth skull extends the range of anatomically modern coelacanths to the Early Devonian".NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 3(2012):0—0. |
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