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Captorhinid reptiles from the lower Permian Pedra de Fogo Formation, Piauí, Brazil: the earliest herbivorous tetrapods in Gondwana
The Pedra de Fogo Formation in the Parnaíba Basin of northeastern Brazil hosts a recently discovered lacustrine fauna and provides the only known record of the Captorhinidae in South America. Here, new captorhinid remains from this unit are described. Two partial mandibles, including one formerly as...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7061909/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32185112 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8719 |
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author | Cisneros, Juan C. Angielczyk, Kenneth Kammerer, Christian F. Smith, Roger M.H. Fröbisch, Jörg Marsicano, Claudia A. Richter, Martha |
author_facet | Cisneros, Juan C. Angielczyk, Kenneth Kammerer, Christian F. Smith, Roger M.H. Fröbisch, Jörg Marsicano, Claudia A. Richter, Martha |
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description | The Pedra de Fogo Formation in the Parnaíba Basin of northeastern Brazil hosts a recently discovered lacustrine fauna and provides the only known record of the Captorhinidae in South America. Here, new captorhinid remains from this unit are described. Two partial mandibles, including one formerly ascribed to the genus Captorhinus, are here referred to Captorhinikos sp. a genus previously described from North America. The natural mould of a large mandible probably represents a new taxon within the captorhinid subclade Moradisaurinae, and a small skull roof is regarded as Captorhinidae indet. Captorhinids are generally considered to have been herbivores or omnivores. The Pedra de Fogo captorhinids likely played an important ecological role as primary consumers in the palaeoenvironment of this geological unit, which is also known for its extensive record of petrified forests. The new finds reinforce the close relationships between the continental faunas of palaeotropical western Gondwana and palaeoequatorial North America during the Cisuralian. |
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spelling | pubmed-70619092020-03-17 Captorhinid reptiles from the lower Permian Pedra de Fogo Formation, Piauí, Brazil: the earliest herbivorous tetrapods in Gondwana Cisneros, Juan C. Angielczyk, Kenneth Kammerer, Christian F. Smith, Roger M.H. Fröbisch, Jörg Marsicano, Claudia A. Richter, Martha PeerJ Biogeography The Pedra de Fogo Formation in the Parnaíba Basin of northeastern Brazil hosts a recently discovered lacustrine fauna and provides the only known record of the Captorhinidae in South America. Here, new captorhinid remains from this unit are described. Two partial mandibles, including one formerly ascribed to the genus Captorhinus, are here referred to Captorhinikos sp. a genus previously described from North America. The natural mould of a large mandible probably represents a new taxon within the captorhinid subclade Moradisaurinae, and a small skull roof is regarded as Captorhinidae indet. Captorhinids are generally considered to have been herbivores or omnivores. The Pedra de Fogo captorhinids likely played an important ecological role as primary consumers in the palaeoenvironment of this geological unit, which is also known for its extensive record of petrified forests. The new finds reinforce the close relationships between the continental faunas of palaeotropical western Gondwana and palaeoequatorial North America during the Cisuralian. PeerJ Inc. 2020-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7061909/ /pubmed/32185112 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8719 Text en © 2020 Cisneros et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. |
spellingShingle | Biogeography Cisneros, Juan C. Angielczyk, Kenneth Kammerer, Christian F. Smith, Roger M.H. Fröbisch, Jörg Marsicano, Claudia A. Richter, Martha Captorhinid reptiles from the lower Permian Pedra de Fogo Formation, Piauí, Brazil: the earliest herbivorous tetrapods in Gondwana |
title | Captorhinid reptiles from the lower Permian Pedra de Fogo Formation, Piauí, Brazil: the earliest herbivorous tetrapods in Gondwana |
title_full | Captorhinid reptiles from the lower Permian Pedra de Fogo Formation, Piauí, Brazil: the earliest herbivorous tetrapods in Gondwana |
title_fullStr | Captorhinid reptiles from the lower Permian Pedra de Fogo Formation, Piauí, Brazil: the earliest herbivorous tetrapods in Gondwana |
title_full_unstemmed | Captorhinid reptiles from the lower Permian Pedra de Fogo Formation, Piauí, Brazil: the earliest herbivorous tetrapods in Gondwana |
title_short | Captorhinid reptiles from the lower Permian Pedra de Fogo Formation, Piauí, Brazil: the earliest herbivorous tetrapods in Gondwana |
title_sort | captorhinid reptiles from the lower permian pedra de fogo formation, piauí, brazil: the earliest herbivorous tetrapods in gondwana |
topic | Biogeography |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7061909/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32185112 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8719 |
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