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Display all details of Turtle neuroanatomy Heather F. Smith 23 1
Display all details of Clement et al. (2022) Morphometric Analysis of Lungfish Endocasts Elucidates Early Dipnoan Palaeoneurological Evolution Lungfish (Dipnoi) are lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii) that have persisted for over 400 million years from the Devonian Period to present day. They are the extant sister group to tetrapods and thus have the ability to provide unique insight into the condition of the earliest tetrapods as well as their own evolutionary history. The evolution of their dermal skull and dentition is relatively well understood, but this is not the case for the central nervous system. While the brain itself has very poor preservation potential and is not currently known in any fossil lungfish, substantial indirect information about it and associated structures such as the inner ears can be obtained from the cranial endocast. However, before the recent development of X-ray tomography as a palaeontological tool, these endocasts could not be studied non-destructively, and few detailed studies were undertaken. Here we describe and illustrate the endocasts of six Palaeozoic lungfishes (Iowadipterus halli, Gogodipterus paddyensis, Pillararhynchus longi, Griphognathus whitei, Orlovichthys limnatis, and Rhinodipterus ulrichi) from tomographic scans. We combine these with six previously described lungfish endocasts (4 fossil and 2 recent taxa), also based on tomographic studies, into a 12-taxon data set for multivariate morphometric analysis using 17 variables. We find that the olfactory region appears to be more highly plastic than the hindbrain, and undergoes significant elongation in several taxa. Further, while the semicircular canals covary as an integrated module, the utriculus and sacculus of the inner ear instead vary independently of each other. The functional and phylogenetic implications of our findings are discussed. Clement, Alice 10 6
Display all details of Anatomy of Neoceratodus forsteri Clement, Alice 9 1
Display all details of Modern and fossil snake tooth replacement Tiff slices from CT scans of five snake species studied in the paper "A conserved tooth resorption mechanism in modern and fossil snakes". LeBlanc, Aaron 5 5
Display all details of Clement et al. (2021) A fresh look at Cladarosymblema narrienense, a tetrapodomorph fish (Sarcopterygii: Megalichthyidae) from the Carboniferous of Australia, illuminated via X-ray tomography Clement, Alice 19 2
Display all details of Echidna development MicroCT and diceCT scans of echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) embryos and hatchlings. Renfree, Marilyn 6 6
Display all details of Yoakum Dissertation MicroCT scans 327 168
Display all details of Triassic stem caecilian supports dissorophoid origin of living amphibians Living amphibians (Lissamphibia) include frogs and salamanders (Batrachia), and the limbless worm-like caecilians (Gymnophiona). The estimated Paleozoic gymnophionan-batrachian molecular divergence suggests a major gap in the record of crown lissamphibians prior to their earliest fossil occurrences in the Triassic Period. Recent studies find a monophyletic Batrachia within dissorophoid temnospondyls, but the absence of pre-Jurassic caecilian fossils has made their relationships to batrachians and affinities to Paleozoic tetrapods controversial. Here we report the geologically-oldest stem caecilian, a crown lissamphibian, from the Late Triassic of Arizona, USA, extending the caecilian record by ~35 Ma. These fossils illuminate the tempo and mode of early caecilian morphological and functional evolution, demonstrating a delayed acquisition of musculoskeletal features associated with fossoriality in living caecilians, including the dual jaw closure mechanism, reduced orbits, and the tentacular organ. The provenance of these fossils suggests a Pangean equatorial origin for caecilians, implying that living caecilian biogeography reflects conserved aspects of caecilian function and physiology in combination with vicariance patterns driven by plate tectonics. These fossils reveal a combination of features unique to caecilians alongside features shared with batrachian and dissorophoid temnospondyls, providing new and compelling evidence supporting a single origin of living amphibians within dissorophoid temnospondyls. Kligman, Ben 8 8
Display all details of Rorqual Baleen CT scans 7 7
Display all details of CryptoVert CryptoVert is an NSF funded TCN PEN (DBI 2001443) that aims to scan cryptobenthic marine fishes from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County for both skeletal and soft-tissue anatomy. 103 80
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