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Curr Biol ; 30(21): 4263-4269.e2, 2020 11 02.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32857974

RESUMO

The first dinosaur embryos found inside megaloolithid eggs from Auca Mahuevo, Patagonia, were assigned to sauropod dinosaurs that lived approximately 80 million years ago. Discovered some 25 years ago, these considerably flattened specimens still remain the only unquestionable embryonic remains of a sauropod dinosaur providing an initial glimpse into titanosaurian in ovo ontogeny. Here we describe an almost intact embryonic skull, which indicates the early development of stereoscopic vision, and an unusual monocerotic face for a sauropod. The new fossil also reveals a neurovascular sensory system in the premaxilla and a partly calcified braincase, which potentially refines estimates of its prenatal stage. The embryo was found in an egg with thicker eggshell and a partly different geochemical signature than those from the egg-bearing layers described in Auca Mahuevo. The cranial bones are comparably ossified as in previously described specimens but differ in facial anatomy and size. The new specimen reveals significant heterochrony in cranial ossifications when compared with non-sauropod sauropodomorph embryos, and demonstrates that the specialized craniofacial morphology preceded the postnatal transformation of the skull anatomy in adults of related titanosaurians.


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Dinossauros/embriologia , Embrião não Mamífero/anatomia & histologia , Face/embriologia , Crânio/embriologia , Animais , Argentina , Evolução Biológica , Dinossauros/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Desenvolvimento Embrionário/fisiologia , Fósseis/anatomia & histologia , Desenvolvimento Maxilofacial/fisiologia , Osteogênese/fisiologia , Crânio/crescimento & desenvolvimento
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PLoS One ; 11(4): e0154352, 2016.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27096749

RESUMO

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145713.].

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PLoS One ; 11(1): e0145713, 2016.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26789843

RESUMO

Approximately 40% of a skeleton including cranial and postcranial remains representing a new genus and species of basal neotheropod dinosaur is described. It was collected from fallen blocks from a sea cliff that exposes Late Triassic and Early Jurassic marine and quasi marine strata on the south Wales coast near the city of Cardiff. Matrix comparisons indicate that the specimen is from the lithological Jurassic part of the sequence, below the first occurrence of the index ammonite Psiloceras planorbis and above the last occurrence of the Rhaetian conodont Chirodella verecunda. Associated fauna of echinoderms and bivalves indicate that the specimen had drifted out to sea, presumably from the nearby Welsh Massif and associated islands (St David's Archipelago). Its occurrence close to the base of the Blue Lias Formation (Lower Jurassic, Hettangian) makes it the oldest known Jurassic dinosaur and it represents the first dinosaur skeleton from the Jurassic of Wales. A cladistic analysis indicates basal neotheropodan affinities, but the specimen retains plesiomorphic characters which it shares with Tawa and Daemonosaurus.


Assuntos
Dinossauros/anatomia & histologia , Dinossauros/classificação , Fósseis/anatomia & histologia , Animais , Extinção Biológica , Paleontologia , Filogeografia , Crânio/anatomia & histologia , Reino Unido
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