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  • 标题:Synchrotron-aided reconstruction of the conodont feeding apparatus and implications for the mouth of the first vertebrates
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  • 作者:Nicolas Goudemand ; Michael J. Orchard ; Séverine Urdy
  • 期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
  • 电子版ISSN:1091-6490
  • 出版年度:2011
  • 卷号:108
  • 期号:21
  • 页码:8720-8724
  • DOI:10.1073/pnas.1101754108
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
  • 摘要:The origin of jaws remains largely an enigma that is best addressed by studying fossil and living jawless vertebrates. Conodonts were eel-shaped jawless animals, whose vertebrate affinity is still disputed. The geometrical analysis of exceptional three-dimensionally preserved clusters of oro-pharyngeal elements of the Early Triassic Novispathodus, imaged using propagation phase-contrast X-ray synchrotron microtomography, suggests the presence of a pulley-shaped lingual cartilage similar to that of extant cyclostomes within the feeding apparatus of euconodonts ("true" conodonts). This would lend strong support to their interpretation as vertebrates and demonstrates that the presence of such cartilage is a plesiomorphic condition of crown vertebrates.
  • 关键词:apical cartilage ; conodont oral skeleton ; early vertebrates ; homology
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