J 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.