Palaeoepidemiology in extinct vertebrate populations: factors influencing skeletal health in Jurassic marine reptiles.

Posidonienschiefer Formation ichthyosauria marine reptiles palaeoecology palaeontology palaeopathology

Journal

Royal Society open science
ISSN: 2054-5703
Titre abrégé: R Soc Open Sci
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101647528

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Jul 2019
Historique:
received: 20 02 2019
accepted: 04 07 2019
entrez: 17 8 2019
pubmed: 17 8 2019
medline: 17 8 2019
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Palaeoepidemiological studies related to palaeoecology are rare, but have the potential to provide information regarding ecosystem-level characteristics by measuring individual health. In order to assess factors underlying the prevalence of pathologies in large marine vertebrates, we surveyed ichthyosaurs (Mesozoic marine reptiles) from the Posidonienschiefer Formation (Early Jurassic: Toarcian) of southwestern Germany. This Formation provides a relatively large sample from a geologically and geographically restricted interval, making it ideal for generating baseline data for a palaeoepidemiological survey. We examined the influence of taxon, anatomical region, body size, ontogeny and environmental change, as represented by the early Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event, on the prevalence of pathologies, based on

Identifiants

pubmed: 31417732
doi: 10.1098/rsos.190264
pii: rsos190264
pmc: PMC6689571
doi:

Banques de données

Dryad
['10.5061/dryad.qm52585']

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

190264

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare no competing interests.

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Auteurs

Judith M Pardo-Pérez (JM)

Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany.
Dirección de Investigación y Postgrado, Universidad de Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile.

Benjamin Kear (B)

Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.

Erin E Maxwell (EE)

Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany.

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