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25 July 2014 Osteohistology of Hyperodapedontine Rhynchosaurs from the Upper Triassic of Southern Brazil
Fábio Hiratsuka Veiga, Marina Bento Soares, Juliana Manso Sayão
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Abstract

The first osteohistological study focused exclusively on rhynchosaurs (non-archosauriform archosauromorphs), based on the hyperodapedontines Teyumbaita sulcognathus and Hyperodapedon sp., from the Upper Triassic of Southern Brazil, indicates a relatively rapid growth rate in early ontogeny shown by the fibrolamellar complex, with a change to slow intermittent growth during late ontogeny represented by parallel-fibred bone with several growth marks. Contrary to previous studies, which described a typical non-archosaur reptilian bone tissue pattern for rhynchosaurs, with growth marks extending across the entire cortex, we demonstrate that, in both studied taxa, the initial growth rate was faster in comparison to the later. This suggests that the ability of rapid growth at high rates was already present in basal non-archosauriform archosauromorphs.

Copyright © 2015 F.H. Veiga et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (for details please see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Fábio Hiratsuka Veiga, Marina Bento Soares, and Juliana Manso Sayão "Osteohistology of Hyperodapedontine Rhynchosaurs from the Upper Triassic of Southern Brazil," Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60(4), 829-836, (25 July 2014). https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00074.2014
Received: 27 February 2014; Accepted: 1 May 2014; Published: 25 July 2014
KEYWORDS
Archosauromorpha
bone histology
Brazil
Diapsida
growth pattern
Hyperodapedontinae
Rhynchosauria
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