New information on the early Permian lanthanosuchoid Feeserpeton oklahomensis based on computed tomography

被引:8
作者
MacDougall, Mark J. [1 ]
Winge, Anika [1 ]
Ponstein, Jasper [1 ]
Jansen, Maren [1 ,2 ]
Reisz, Robert R. [3 ]
Froebisch, Joerg [1 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Leibniz Inst Evolut & Biodiversitatsforsch, Museum Nat Kunde, Berlin, Germany
[2] Museum Nat Kunde Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
[3] Univ Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada
[4] Humboldt Univ, Berlin, Germany
来源
PEERJ | 2019年 / 7卷
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
Reptilia; Cisuralian; Parareptilia; Palaeozoic; Sauropsida; RICHARDS SPUR; COLOBOMYCTER-PHOLETER; PARAREPTILE; REPTILE; DELORHYNCHUS; VERTEBRATA; REMAINS; ORIGIN; RECORD; SILL;
D O I
10.7717/peerj.7753
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The cave deposits of the Lower Permian Richards Spur locality in Oklahoma, USA, have produced an incredible number of terrestrial tetrapod taxa, many of which are currently only known from this locality. One of the many recent taxa to be described from the locality was the small lanthanosuchoid parareptile Feeserpeton oklahomensis. Represented by a well-preserved, near complete skull, F. oklahomensis would have been a small predatory reptile, likely preying upon arthropods, and contributes to the extensive tetrapod fauna that was present at Richards Spur. New computed tomography data of the holotype and only specimen has allowed us to visualize and describe previously obscured and inaccessible anatomy of this taxon. These areas include the mandibular ramus, the palate, the sphenethmoid, the epipterygoids, and the braincase. Furthermore, this new anatomical information allowed formerly unknown character codings to be updated, thus we also performed new phylogenetic analyses that incorporated this new information. The results of these updated phylogenetic analyses are very similar to those of past studies, with F. oklahomensis being found as the sister taxon to all other lanthanosuchoids.
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