An unusual small-bodied crocodyliform from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland, UK, and potential evidence for an early diversification of advanced neosuchians
Yi, Hongyu1,2; Tennant, Jonathan P.3; Young, Mark T.2; Challands, Thomas J.2; Foffa, Davide2; Hudson, John D.4; Ross, Dugald A.5; Brusatte, Stephen L.2,6
刊名EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH
2017-09-01
卷号107期号:1页码:1-12
关键词Crocodyliformes Duntulm Formation Isle Of Skye Neosuchia
DOI10.1017/S1755691017000032
文献子类Review
英文摘要

The Middle Jurassic is a poorly sampled time interval for non-pelagic neosuchian crocodyliforms, which obscures our understanding of the origin and early evolution of major clades. Here we report a lower jaw from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) Duntulm Formation of the Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK, which consists of an isolated and incomplete left dentary and part of the splenial. Morphologically, the Skye specimen closely resembles the Cretaceous neosuchians Pachycheilosuchus and Pietraroiasuchus, in having a proportionally short mandibular symphysis, shallow dentary alveoli and inferred weakly heterodont dentition. It differs from other crocodyliforms in that the Meckelian canal is dorsoventrally expanded posterior to the mandibular symphysis and drastically constricted at the 7th alveolus. The new specimen, together with the presence of Theriosuchus sp. from the Valtos Formation and indeterminate neosuchians from the Kilmaluag Formation, indicates the presence of a previously unrecognised, diverse crocodyliform fauna in the Middle Jurassic of Skye, and Europe more generally. Small-bodied neosuchians were present, and ecologically and taxonomically diverse, in nearshore environments in the Middle Jurassic of the UK.

WOS关键词Great Estuarine Group ; Isle-of-skye ; Inner-hebrides ; Phylogenetic-relationships ; Evolutionary History ; Southern France ; Crocodylomorph ; Mesoeucrocodylia ; Eusuchia ; Dinosaur
WOS研究方向Geology ; Paleontology
语种英语
WOS记录号WOS:000412277000001
资助机构Royal Society Sino-British Incoming Postdoctoral Fellowship ; University of Edinburgh ; National Environmental Research Council ; Richard Deveira ; Edinburgh Zoo and Royal Zoological Society of Scotland ; Edinburgh Geological Society ; Systematics Research Fund ; Marie Curie Career Integration Grant(CIG 630652) ; Royal Society Research Grant(RG130018)
内容类型期刊论文
源URL[http://124.16.247.212/handle/311034/8030]  
专题古脊椎动物与古人类研究所_图书馆1
作者单位1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China
2.Univ Edinburgh, Sch GeoSci, Grant Inst, Kings Bldg,James Hutton Rd, Edinburgh EH9 3FE, Midlothian, Scotland
3.Imperial Coll London, Dept Earth Sci & Engn, London SW6 2AZ, England
4.Univ Leicester, Dept Geol, Univ Rd, Leicester LE1 7RH, Leics, England
5.Staffin Museum, 6 Ellishadder, Staffin IV51 9JE, Isle Of Skye, Scotland
6.Natl Museums Scotland, Chambers St, Edinburgh EH1 1JF, Midlothian, Scotland
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Yi, Hongyu,Tennant, Jonathan P.,Young, Mark T.,et al. An unusual small-bodied crocodyliform from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland, UK, and potential evidence for an early diversification of advanced neosuchians[J]. EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH,2017,107(1):1-12.
APA Yi, Hongyu.,Tennant, Jonathan P..,Young, Mark T..,Challands, Thomas J..,Foffa, Davide.,...&Brusatte, Stephen L..(2017).An unusual small-bodied crocodyliform from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland, UK, and potential evidence for an early diversification of advanced neosuchians.EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH,107(1),1-12.
MLA Yi, Hongyu,et al."An unusual small-bodied crocodyliform from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland, UK, and potential evidence for an early diversification of advanced neosuchians".EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 107.1(2017):1-12.
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