KMS Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
Aerodynamics Show Membrane-Winged Theropods Were a Poor Gliding Dead-end | |
Dececchi, T. Alexander1; Roy, Arindam2; Pittman, Michael2; Kaye, Thomas G.3; Xu, Xing4; Habib, Michael B.5; Larsson, Hans C. E.6; Wang, Xiaoli7; Zheng, Xiaoting7,8 | |
2020-12-18 | |
发表期刊 | ISCIENCE |
卷号 | 23期号:12页码:34 |
摘要 | The bizarre scansoriopterygid theropods Yi and Ambopteryx had skin stretched between elongate fingers that form a potential membranous wing. This wing is thought to have been used in aerial locomotion, but this has never been tested. Using laser-stimulated fluorescence imaging, we re-evaluate their anatomy and perform aerodynamic calculations covering flight potential, other wing-based behaviors, and gliding capabilities. We find that Yi and Ambopteryx were likely arboreal, highly unlikely to have any form of powered flight, and had significant deficiencies in flapping-based locomotion and limited gliding abilities. Our results show that Scansoriopterygidae are not models for the early evolution of bird flight, and their structurally distinct wings differed greatly from contemporaneous paravians, supporting multiple independent origins of flight. We propose that Scansoriopterygidae represents a unique but failed flight architecture of non-avialan theropods and that the evolutionary race to capture vertebrate aerial morphospace in the Middle to Late Jurassic was dynamic and complex. |
DOI | 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101574 |
关键词[WOS] | BIZARRE JURASSIC MANIRAPTORAN ; FLIGHT PERFORMANCE ; FOSSIL RECORD ; BODY-SIZE ; TAKE-OFF ; EVOLUTION ; ORIGIN ; BIRDS ; ARCHAEOPTERYX ; MICRORAPTOR |
收录类别 | SCI |
语种 | 英语 |
资助项目 | RAE Improvement Fund of the Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong ; Hong Kong PhD Fellowship[PF16-09281] ; University of Hong Kong (HKU) MOOC Dinosaur Ecosystems ; Research Grant Council General Research Fund[17120920] |
WOS研究方向 | Science & Technology - Other Topics |
WOS类目 | Multidisciplinary Sciences |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000600670000001 |
出版者 | CELL PRESS |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/18748 |
专题 | 中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所 |
通讯作者 | Dececchi, T. Alexander |
作者单位 | 1.Mt Marty Univ, Dept Biol, Div Nat Sci, Yankton, SD 57058 USA 2.Univ Hong Kong, Div Earth & Planetary Sci, Vertebrate Palaeontol Lab, Hong Kong, Peoples R China 3.Fdn Sci Adv, Sierra Vista, AZ USA 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing, Peoples R China 5.Nat Hist Museum Los Angeles Cty, Los Angeles, CA USA 6.McGill Univ, Redpath Museum, Montreal, PQ, Canada 7.Linyi Univ, Inst Geol & Paleontol, Linyi, Shandong, Peoples R China 8.Shandong Tianyu Museum Nat, Pingyi, Shandong, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Dececchi, T. Alexander,Roy, Arindam,Pittman, Michael,et al. Aerodynamics Show Membrane-Winged Theropods Were a Poor Gliding Dead-end[J]. ISCIENCE,2020,23(12):34. |
APA | Dececchi, T. Alexander.,Roy, Arindam.,Pittman, Michael.,Kaye, Thomas G..,Xu, Xing.,...&Zheng, Xiaoting.(2020).Aerodynamics Show Membrane-Winged Theropods Were a Poor Gliding Dead-end.ISCIENCE,23(12),34. |
MLA | Dececchi, T. Alexander,et al."Aerodynamics Show Membrane-Winged Theropods Were a Poor Gliding Dead-end".ISCIENCE 23.12(2020):34. |
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