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Novel insight into the origin of the growth dynamics of sauropod dinosaurs
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Author(s):
Ignacio Alejandro Cerda
1
,
* ,
Anusuya Chinsamy
2 ,
Diego Pol
3 ,
Cecilia Apaldetti
3
,
4 ,
Alejandro Otero
5 ,
Jaime Eduardo Powell
6 ,
Ricardo Nestor Martínez
4
Publication date (Electronic):
27 June 2017
Journal:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
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Abstract
Sauropod dinosaurs include the largest terrestrial animals and are considered to have uninterrupted rapid rates of growth, which differs from their more basal relatives, which have a slower cyclical growth. Here we examine the bone microstructure of several sauropodomorph dinosaurs, including basal taxa, as well as the more derived sauropods. Although our results agree that the plesiomorphic condition for Sauropodomorpha is cyclical growth dynamics, we found that the hypothesized dichotomy between the growth patterns of basal and more derived sauropodomorphs is not supported. Here, we show that sauropod-like growth dynamics of uninterrupted rapid growth also occurred in some basal sauropodomorphs, and that some basal sauropods retained the plesiomorphic cyclical growth patterns. Among the sauropodomorpha it appears that the basal taxa exploited different growth strategies, but the more derived Eusauropoda successfully utilized rapid, uninterrupted growth strategies.
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Bone histology indicates insular dwarfism in a new Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur.
Octávio Mateus, Nils Knötschke, Thomas Laven … (2006)
Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest animals ever to inhabit the land, with truly gigantic forms in at least three lineages. Small species with an adult body mass less than five tonnes are very rare, and small sauropod bones generally represent juveniles. Here we describe a new diminutive species of basal macronarian sauropod, Europasaurus holgeri gen. et sp. nov., and on the basis of bone histology we show it to have been a dwarf species. The fossils, including excellent skull material, come from Kimmeridgian marine beds of northern Germany, and record more than 11 individuals of sauropods 1.7 to 6.2 m in total body length. Morphological overlap between partial skeletons and isolated bones links all material to the same new taxon. Cortical histology of femora and tibiae indicates that size differences within the specimens are due to different ontogenetic stages, from juveniles to fully grown individuals. The little dinosaurs must have lived on one of the large islands around the Lower Saxony basin. Comparison with the long-bone histology of large-bodied sauropods suggests that the island dwarf species evolved through a decrease in growth rate from its larger ancestor.
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Contributors
Ignacio Alejandro Cerda: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole:
InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SoftwareRole:
SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole:
Writing – review & editing
Anusuya Chinsamy: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole:
InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SoftwareRole:
SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole:
Writing – review & editing
Diego Pol: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole:
InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SoftwareRole:
SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole:
Writing – review & editing
Cecilia Apaldetti: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole:
InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SoftwareRole:
SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole:
Writing – review & editing
Alejandro Otero: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole:
InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SoftwareRole:
SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole:
Writing – review & editing
Jaime Eduardo Powell: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole:
InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SoftwareRole:
SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole:
Writing – review & editing
Ricardo Nestor Martínez: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole:
InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SoftwareRole:
SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole:
Writing – review & editing
Leon Claessens: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
27
June
2017
Publication date Collection: 2017
Volume: 12
Issue: 6
Electronic Location Identifier: e0179707
Affiliations
[1
]CONICET-Instituto de Investigaciónen Paleobiología y Geología, Universidad Nacional
de Río Negro, Museo Carlos Ameghino, Cipolletti, Río Negro, Argentina
Author notes
* E-mail:
nachocerda6@
123456yahoo.com.ar
Article
Publisher ID: PONE-D-16-33420DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179707
PMC ID: 5487048
PubMed ID: 28654696
SO-VID: b8334d86-15dc-4e84-83b5-8adea7dddbb5
Copyright © © 2017 Cerda et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 21
August
2016
Date
accepted
: 2
June
2017
Page count
Figures: 14,
Tables: 4,
Pages: 38
Funding
Funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva of the República Argentina
Award ID: South Africa (SA/11/15)
Award Recipient
:
Diego Pol
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100006668, Fondo para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica;
Award ID: PICT-2011-1181
Award Recipient
:
Ignacio Alejandro Cerda
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100006668, Fondo para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica;
Award ID: PICT-2015-1021
Award Recipient
:
Ignacio Alejandro Cerda
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100006668, Fondo para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica;
Award ID: PICT 2014-1288
Award Recipient
:
Diego Pol
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100006668, Fondo para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica;
Award ID: PICT-2013-1920
Award Recipient
:
Cecilia Apaldetti
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100006668, Fondo para la Investigación Científica y Tecnológica;
Award ID: PICT-2011-2482
Award Recipient
:
Alejandro Otero
Funded by: African Origins platform, NRF, South Africa to AC
Award ID: African Origins platform, NRF
Award Recipient
:
Anusuya Chinsamy
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100001257, National Geographic Society Education Foundation;
Award ID: Research Grant 8860-10
Award Recipient
:
Diego Pol
This work was supported by National Geographic Society, Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología
e Innovación Productiva of the República Argentina and the National Research Foundation
(NRF), South Africa, Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Técnica, African Origins
platform.
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