Osteology of the Late Cretaceous alvarezsauroid Linhenykus monodactylus from China and comments on alvarezsauroid biogeography | |
Xu, Xing1; Upchurch, Paul2; Ma, Qingyu1; Pittman, Michael2; Choiniere, Jonah3; Sullivan, Corwin1; Hone, David W. E.1; Tan, Qingwei4; Tan, Lin4; Xiao, Dong5; Han, Fenglu1; xingxu@vip.sina.com | |
2013-03-01 | |
发表期刊 | ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA |
ISSN | 0567-7920 |
卷号 | 58期号:1页码:25-46 |
文章类型 | Article |
摘要 | The alvarezsauroid theropod Linhenykus monodactylus from the Upper Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China is the first known monodactyl non-avian dinosaur, providing important information on the complex patterns of manual evolution seen in alvarezsauroids. Here we provide a detailed description of the osteology of this taxon. Linhenykus shows a number of features that are transitional between parvicursorine and non-parvicursorine alvarezsauroids, but detailed comparisons also reveal that some characters had a more complex distribution. We also use event-based tree-fitting to perform a quantitative analysis of alvarezsauroid biogeography incorporating several recently discovered taxa. The results suggest that there is no statistical support for previous biogeographic hypotheses that favour pure vicariance or pure dispersal scenarios as explanations for the distributions of alvarezsauroids across South America, North America and Asia. Instead, statistically significant biogeographic reconstructions suggest a dominant role for sympatric (or "within area") events, combined with a mix of vicariance, dispersal and regional extinction. At present the alvarezsauroid data set is too small to completely resolve the biogeographic history of this group: future studies will need to create larger data sets that encompass additional clades. |
关键词 | Dinosauria Theropoda Parvicursorinae Alvarezsauroid Biogeography Treefitter Dispersal Vicariance Sympatry Cretaceous Wulansuhai Formation Inner Mongolia China |
WOS标题词 | Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine |
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关键词[WOS] | DINOSAURIAN BIOGEOGRAPHY ; EUROPEAN ALVAREZSAUROIDS ; TERRESTRIAL LOCOMOTION ; THEROPODA ; BIRDS ; MONONYKUS ; EVOLUTION ; ARCHOSAURS ; VICARIANCE ; PATTERNS |
收录类别 | SCI |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS研究方向 | Paleontology |
WOS类目 | Paleontology |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000318462900003 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4197 |
专题 | 古低等脊椎动物研究室 |
通讯作者 | xingxu@vip.sina.com |
作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Evolutionary Systemat Vertebrates, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.UCL, Dept Earth Sci, London WC1E 6BT, England 3.George Washington Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Washington, DC 20052 USA 4.Long Hao Inst Geol & Paleontol, Hohhot 010010, Inner Mongolia, Peoples R China 5.Dept Land & Resources, Linhe 015000, Inner Mongolia, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Xu, Xing,Upchurch, Paul,Ma, Qingyu,et al. Osteology of the Late Cretaceous alvarezsauroid Linhenykus monodactylus from China and comments on alvarezsauroid biogeography[J]. ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA,2013,58(1):25-46. |
APA | Xu, Xing.,Upchurch, Paul.,Ma, Qingyu.,Pittman, Michael.,Choiniere, Jonah.,...&xingxu@vip.sina.com.(2013).Osteology of the Late Cretaceous alvarezsauroid Linhenykus monodactylus from China and comments on alvarezsauroid biogeography.ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA,58(1),25-46. |
MLA | Xu, Xing,et al."Osteology of the Late Cretaceous alvarezsauroid Linhenykus monodactylus from China and comments on alvarezsauroid biogeography".ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA 58.1(2013):25-46. |
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