2017
DOI: 10.1038/nature23476
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

New gliding mammaliaforms from the Jurassic

Abstract: Stem mammaliaforms are Mesozoic forerunners to mammals, and they offer critical evidence for the anatomical evolution and ecological diversification during the earliest mammalian history. Two new eleutherodonts from the Late Jurassic period have skin membranes and skeletal features that are adapted for gliding. Characteristics of their digits provide evidence of roosting behaviour, as in dermopterans and bats, and their feet have a calcaneal calcar to support the uropagatium as in bats. The new volant taxa are… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
1
1
1

Citation Types

0
81
0

Year Published

2018
2018
2021
2021

Publication Types

Select...
6
2

Relationship

1
7

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 77 publications
(82 citation statements)
references
References 41 publications
0
81
0
Order By: Relevance
“…However, the discovery of a calcar in a Mesozoic mammaliaform (Meng et al. ) raises the possibility of a deep homological explanation for the origin of the calcar (Shubin et al. ).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
See 1 more Smart Citation
“…However, the discovery of a calcar in a Mesozoic mammaliaform (Meng et al. ) raises the possibility of a deep homological explanation for the origin of the calcar (Shubin et al. ).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…), and the calcar of Maiopatagium furculiferum , a haramiyid mammaliaform (Meng et al. ). Because these skeletal rods are now known from disparate amniote lineages, they seem less like evolutionary oddities than consequential skeletal novelties characteristic of the skin membranes of volant body plans.…”
mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A further benefit of identifying strong links between ecologies and morphologies is that these associations provide critical tools for evolutionary studies, helping researchers to reconstruct paleoecologies of fossil taxa (Meng et al. ; Olsen ; Chen et al. ), examine macroevolutionary patterns in major clades (Grossnickle and Polly ; Mitchell and Makovicky ), and reconstruct paleoenvironments (Vermillion et al.…”
mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Qishou jizantang (Mao & Meng, 2019a) is dentally similar to Shenshou (Bi et al ) and Maiopatagium (Meng et al ), although the tooth occlusal patterns are considerably different between Qishou and Shenshou on the one hand and Maiopatagium on the other (Mao & Meng, 2019b). Only the ectotympanic is preserved on the left side of the basicranium (Fig.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%