2024
A diadectid skin impression and its implications for the evolutionary origin of epidermal scales
VOIGT, Sebastian, Gabriela CALÁBKOVÁ, Izabela PLOCH, Vojtěch NOSEK, Wojciech PAWLAK et. al.Základní údaje
Originální název
A diadectid skin impression and its implications for the evolutionary origin of epidermal scales
Autoři
VOIGT, Sebastian, Gabriela CALÁBKOVÁ, Izabela PLOCH, Vojtěch NOSEK, Wojciech PAWLAK, Paweł RACZYŃSKI, Frederik SPINDLER a Ralf WERNEBURG
Vydání
BIOLOGY LETTERS, ENGLAND, ROYAL SOC, 2024, 1744-9561
Další údaje
Jazyk
angličtina
Typ výsledku
Článek v odborném periodiku
Obor
10506 Paleontology
Stát vydavatele
Velká Británie a Severní Irsko
Utajení
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Impakt faktor
Impact factor: 3.300 v roce 2022
Organizační jednotka
Filozofická fakulta
Klíčová slova anglicky
Palaeontology;evolution;developmental biology;early tetrapods;skin appendages;scale pattern;palaeozoic
Příznaky
Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 24. 10. 2024 10:05, Mgr. Gabriela Calábková, Ph.D.
Anotace
V originále
Corneous skin appendages are not only common and diverse in crown-group amniotes but also present in some modern amphibians. This raises the still unresolved question of whether the ability to form corneous skin appendages is an apomorphy of a common ancestor of amphibians and amniotes or evolved independently in both groups. So far, there is no palaeontological contribution to the issue owing to the lack of keratin soft tissue preservation in Palaeozoic anamniotes. New data are provided by a recently discovered ichnofossil specimen from the early Permian of Poland that shows monospecific tetrapod footprints associated with a partial scaly body impression. The traces can be unambiguously attributed to diadectids and are interpreted as the globally first evidence of horned scales in tetrapods close to the origin of amniotes. Taking hitherto little-noticed scaly skin impressions of lepospondyl stem amniotes from the early Permian of Germany into account, the possibility has to be considered that the evolutionary origin of epidermal scales deeply roots among anamniotes.