How not to disappear completely: new Stereospondyli fossils from the Rhaetian, Upper Triassic of Bonenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia and their implications for the Late Triassic extinction of Stereospondyli
Temnospondyli appeared in the early Carboniferous, became extinct in the Early Cretaceous and reached high diversity especially during the Permian and Triassic. After the end-Permian mass extinction, almost only Stereospondyli survived (with the exception of the dissorophoid Micropholis). This clade...
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| description | Temnospondyli appeared in the early Carboniferous, became extinct in the Early Cretaceous and reached high diversity especially during the Permian and Triassic. After the end-Permian mass extinction, almost only Stereospondyli survived (with the exception of the dissorophoid Micropholis). This clade radiated and gave rise to several successful groups: Plagiosauroidea, Trematosauroidea, Metoposauroidea, Capitosauria, and Brachyopoidea. While Brachyopoidea survived into the Early Cretaceous, the other groups were thought to have gradually disappeared during the Late Triassic, going extinct before the Rhaetian. This hypothesis was supported by the lack of unambiguously dated Rhaetian localities with Stereospondyli fossils. This gap was filled by the discovery of the Bonenburg clay pit in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany). This locality has been unequivocally dated to the late middle Rhaetian and had yielded a temnospondyl fossil assigned to Capitosauria. Here we describe further Stereospondyli fossils from Bonenburg, including diagnostic bones such as a dentary, a pterygoid, a parietal, and eight other bones in different states of preservation. These fossils belong to at least two taxa of Capitosauria and one taxon of Plagiosauridae and represent the geologically youngest remains of both clades. The specimens are described morphologically, and for the long bones, a clavicle fragment, and an unidentified dermal bone, histological analysis was used to further confirm the morphological analysis. These results shed light on the extinction of two major groups of Stereospondyli, documenting that some non-brachyopoid temnospondyls survived until the end of the Triassic. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7c3648e576a3471db16b8f0d64d27fc12025-01-15T13:51:19ZengInstitute of Paleobiology PASActa Palaeontologica Polonica1732-24212024-12-0169468771210.4202/app.01147.2024How not to disappear completely: new Stereospondyli fossils from the Rhaetian, Upper Triassic of Bonenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia and their implications for the Late Triassic extinction of StereospondyliAndrea Prino0Florian Witzmann1Achim H. Schwermann2P. Martin Sander3Laurent Garbay4Dorota Konietzko-Meier5Comparative Zoology, Institute of Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Philippstrasse 12/13, 10115 Berlin, Germany. Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany. Bonn Institute of Organismic Biology (BIOB‑V), Section Paleontology, University of Bonn, Nussallee 8, Bonn 53115, Germany.Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany.LWL-Museum für Naturkunde, Westfälisches Landesmuseum mit Planetarium, 48161 Münster, Germany.Bonn Institute of Organismic Biology (BIOB‑V), Section Paleontology, University of Bonn, Nussallee 8, Bonn 53115, Germany.Natural History Museum Luxembourg, Department of Paleontology, 25 rue Münster, 2160 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.Bonn Institute of Organismic Biology (BIOB‑V), Section Paleontology, University of Bonn, Nussallee 8, Bonn 53115, Germany; Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany.Temnospondyli appeared in the early Carboniferous, became extinct in the Early Cretaceous and reached high diversity especially during the Permian and Triassic. After the end-Permian mass extinction, almost only Stereospondyli survived (with the exception of the dissorophoid Micropholis). This clade radiated and gave rise to several successful groups: Plagiosauroidea, Trematosauroidea, Metoposauroidea, Capitosauria, and Brachyopoidea. While Brachyopoidea survived into the Early Cretaceous, the other groups were thought to have gradually disappeared during the Late Triassic, going extinct before the Rhaetian. This hypothesis was supported by the lack of unambiguously dated Rhaetian localities with Stereospondyli fossils. This gap was filled by the discovery of the Bonenburg clay pit in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany). This locality has been unequivocally dated to the late middle Rhaetian and had yielded a temnospondyl fossil assigned to Capitosauria. Here we describe further Stereospondyli fossils from Bonenburg, including diagnostic bones such as a dentary, a pterygoid, a parietal, and eight other bones in different states of preservation. These fossils belong to at least two taxa of Capitosauria and one taxon of Plagiosauridae and represent the geologically youngest remains of both clades. The specimens are described morphologically, and for the long bones, a clavicle fragment, and an unidentified dermal bone, histological analysis was used to further confirm the morphological analysis. These results shed light on the extinction of two major groups of Stereospondyli, documenting that some non-brachyopoid temnospondyls survived until the end of the Triassic.https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app69/app011472024.pdftemnospondylicapitosauroideaplagiosaurinaebone histologyend-triassic extinctionrhaetianbonenbur |
| spellingShingle | Andrea Prino Florian Witzmann Achim H. Schwermann P. Martin Sander Laurent Garbay Dorota Konietzko-Meier How not to disappear completely: new Stereospondyli fossils from the Rhaetian, Upper Triassic of Bonenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia and their implications for the Late Triassic extinction of Stereospondyli Acta Palaeontologica Polonica temnospondyli capitosauroidea plagiosaurinae bone histology end-triassic extinction rhaetian bonenbur |
| title | How not to disappear completely: new Stereospondyli fossils from the Rhaetian, Upper Triassic of Bonenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia and their implications for the Late Triassic extinction of Stereospondyli |
| title_full | How not to disappear completely: new Stereospondyli fossils from the Rhaetian, Upper Triassic of Bonenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia and their implications for the Late Triassic extinction of Stereospondyli |
| title_fullStr | How not to disappear completely: new Stereospondyli fossils from the Rhaetian, Upper Triassic of Bonenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia and their implications for the Late Triassic extinction of Stereospondyli |
| title_full_unstemmed | How not to disappear completely: new Stereospondyli fossils from the Rhaetian, Upper Triassic of Bonenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia and their implications for the Late Triassic extinction of Stereospondyli |
| title_short | How not to disappear completely: new Stereospondyli fossils from the Rhaetian, Upper Triassic of Bonenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia and their implications for the Late Triassic extinction of Stereospondyli |
| title_sort | how not to disappear completely new stereospondyli fossils from the rhaetian upper triassic of bonenburg north rhine westphalia and their implications for the late triassic extinction of stereospondyli |
| topic | temnospondyli capitosauroidea plagiosaurinae bone histology end-triassic extinction rhaetian bonenbur |
| url | https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app69/app011472024.pdf |
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