Osteohistological insight into the growth dynamics of early dinosaurs and their contemporaries

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Curry Rogers, Kristina; Martínez, Ricardo Néstor; Colombi, Carina Ester; Rogers, Raymond; Alcober, Oscar Alfredo
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2024
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Dinosauria debuted on Earth stage in the aftermath of the Permo-Triassic MEE and survived two other Triassic extinction intervals to eventually dominate terrestrial ecosystems. More than 231 million years ago, in the Upper Triassic Ischigualasto Formation of west-central Argentina, dinosaurs were just getting warmed up. At this time, dinosaurs represented a minor fraction of ecosystem diversity. Members of other tetrapod clades, including synapsids and pseudosuchians, shared convergently evolved features related to locomotion, feeding, respiration, and metabolism and could have risen to later dominance. However, it was Dinosauria that radiated in the later Mesozoic most significantly in terms of body size, diversity, and global distribution. Elevated growth rates are one of the adaptations that set later Mesozoic dinosaurs apart, particularly from their contemporary crocodilian and mammalian compatriots. When did the elevated growth rates of dinosaurs first evolve? How did the growth strategies of the earliest known dinosaurs compare with those of other tetrapods in their ecosystems? We studied femoral bone histology of an array of early dinosaurs alongside that of non-dinosaurian contemporaries from the Ischigualasto Formation in order to test whether the oldest known dinosaurs exhibited novel growth strategies. Our results indicate that the Ischigualasto vertebrate fauna collectively exhibits relatively high growth rates. Dinosaurs are among the fastest growing taxa in the sample, but they occupied this niche alongside crocodylomorphs, archosauriformes, and pseudosuchians. Interestingly, these dinosaurs grew at least as quickly, but more continuously than sauropodomorph and theropod dinosaurs of the later Mesozoic. These data suggest that, while elevated growth rates were ancestral for Dinosauria and likely played a significant role in dinosaurs’ ascent within Mesozoic ecosystems, they did not set them apart from their contemporaries.
Fil: Curry Rogers, Kristina. Macalester College; Estados Unidos
Fil: Martínez, Ricardo Néstor. Universidad Nacional de San Juan. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto y Museo de Ciencias Naturales. Área de Paleontología de Vertebrados; Argentina
Fil: Colombi, Carina Ester. Universidad Nacional de San Juan. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto y Museo de Ciencias Naturales. Área de Paleontología de Vertebrados; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - San Juan. Centro de Investigaciones de la Geosfera y Biosfera. Universidad Nacional de San Juan. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Centro de Investigaciones de la Geosfera y Biosfera; Argentina
Fil: Rogers, Raymond. Macalester College; Estados Unidos
Fil: Alcober, Oscar Alfredo. Universidad Nacional de San Juan. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto y Museo de Ciencias Naturales. Área de Paleontología de Vertebrados; Argentina
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TRIASSIC
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spelling Osteohistological insight into the growth dynamics of early dinosaurs and their contemporariesCurry Rogers, KristinaMartínez, Ricardo NéstorColombi, Carina EsterRogers, RaymondAlcober, Oscar AlfredoOSTEOHISTOLOGYDINOUSAURSISCHIGUALASTOTRIASSIChttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1Dinosauria debuted on Earth stage in the aftermath of the Permo-Triassic MEE and survived two other Triassic extinction intervals to eventually dominate terrestrial ecosystems. More than 231 million years ago, in the Upper Triassic Ischigualasto Formation of west-central Argentina, dinosaurs were just getting warmed up. At this time, dinosaurs represented a minor fraction of ecosystem diversity. Members of other tetrapod clades, including synapsids and pseudosuchians, shared convergently evolved features related to locomotion, feeding, respiration, and metabolism and could have risen to later dominance. However, it was Dinosauria that radiated in the later Mesozoic most significantly in terms of body size, diversity, and global distribution. Elevated growth rates are one of the adaptations that set later Mesozoic dinosaurs apart, particularly from their contemporary crocodilian and mammalian compatriots. When did the elevated growth rates of dinosaurs first evolve? How did the growth strategies of the earliest known dinosaurs compare with those of other tetrapods in their ecosystems? We studied femoral bone histology of an array of early dinosaurs alongside that of non-dinosaurian contemporaries from the Ischigualasto Formation in order to test whether the oldest known dinosaurs exhibited novel growth strategies. Our results indicate that the Ischigualasto vertebrate fauna collectively exhibits relatively high growth rates. Dinosaurs are among the fastest growing taxa in the sample, but they occupied this niche alongside crocodylomorphs, archosauriformes, and pseudosuchians. Interestingly, these dinosaurs grew at least as quickly, but more continuously than sauropodomorph and theropod dinosaurs of the later Mesozoic. These data suggest that, while elevated growth rates were ancestral for Dinosauria and likely played a significant role in dinosaurs’ ascent within Mesozoic ecosystems, they did not set them apart from their contemporaries.Fil: Curry Rogers, Kristina. Macalester College; Estados UnidosFil: Martínez, Ricardo Néstor. Universidad Nacional de San Juan. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto y Museo de Ciencias Naturales. Área de Paleontología de Vertebrados; ArgentinaFil: Colombi, Carina Ester. Universidad Nacional de San Juan. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto y Museo de Ciencias Naturales. Área de Paleontología de Vertebrados; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - San Juan. Centro de Investigaciones de la Geosfera y Biosfera. Universidad Nacional de San Juan. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Centro de Investigaciones de la Geosfera y Biosfera; ArgentinaFil: Rogers, Raymond. Macalester College; Estados UnidosFil: Alcober, Oscar Alfredo. Universidad Nacional de San Juan. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto y Museo de Ciencias Naturales. Área de Paleontología de Vertebrados; ArgentinaPublic Library of Science2024-04info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/257183Curry Rogers, Kristina; Martínez, Ricardo Néstor; Colombi, Carina Ester; Rogers, Raymond; Alcober, Oscar Alfredo; Osteohistological insight into the growth dynamics of early dinosaurs and their contemporaries; Public Library of Science; Plos One; 19; 4; 4-2024; 1-601932-6203CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0298242info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-10-22T11:59:40Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/257183instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-10-22 11:59:40.547CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Osteohistological insight into the growth dynamics of early dinosaurs and their contemporaries
title Osteohistological insight into the growth dynamics of early dinosaurs and their contemporaries
spellingShingle Osteohistological insight into the growth dynamics of early dinosaurs and their contemporaries
Curry Rogers, Kristina
OSTEOHISTOLOGY
DINOUSAURS
ISCHIGUALASTO
TRIASSIC
title_short Osteohistological insight into the growth dynamics of early dinosaurs and their contemporaries
title_full Osteohistological insight into the growth dynamics of early dinosaurs and their contemporaries
title_fullStr Osteohistological insight into the growth dynamics of early dinosaurs and their contemporaries
title_full_unstemmed Osteohistological insight into the growth dynamics of early dinosaurs and their contemporaries
title_sort Osteohistological insight into the growth dynamics of early dinosaurs and their contemporaries
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Curry Rogers, Kristina
Martínez, Ricardo Néstor
Colombi, Carina Ester
Rogers, Raymond
Alcober, Oscar Alfredo
author Curry Rogers, Kristina
author_facet Curry Rogers, Kristina
Martínez, Ricardo Néstor
Colombi, Carina Ester
Rogers, Raymond
Alcober, Oscar Alfredo
author_role author
author2 Martínez, Ricardo Néstor
Colombi, Carina Ester
Rogers, Raymond
Alcober, Oscar Alfredo
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv OSTEOHISTOLOGY
DINOUSAURS
ISCHIGUALASTO
TRIASSIC
topic OSTEOHISTOLOGY
DINOUSAURS
ISCHIGUALASTO
TRIASSIC
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Dinosauria debuted on Earth stage in the aftermath of the Permo-Triassic MEE and survived two other Triassic extinction intervals to eventually dominate terrestrial ecosystems. More than 231 million years ago, in the Upper Triassic Ischigualasto Formation of west-central Argentina, dinosaurs were just getting warmed up. At this time, dinosaurs represented a minor fraction of ecosystem diversity. Members of other tetrapod clades, including synapsids and pseudosuchians, shared convergently evolved features related to locomotion, feeding, respiration, and metabolism and could have risen to later dominance. However, it was Dinosauria that radiated in the later Mesozoic most significantly in terms of body size, diversity, and global distribution. Elevated growth rates are one of the adaptations that set later Mesozoic dinosaurs apart, particularly from their contemporary crocodilian and mammalian compatriots. When did the elevated growth rates of dinosaurs first evolve? How did the growth strategies of the earliest known dinosaurs compare with those of other tetrapods in their ecosystems? We studied femoral bone histology of an array of early dinosaurs alongside that of non-dinosaurian contemporaries from the Ischigualasto Formation in order to test whether the oldest known dinosaurs exhibited novel growth strategies. Our results indicate that the Ischigualasto vertebrate fauna collectively exhibits relatively high growth rates. Dinosaurs are among the fastest growing taxa in the sample, but they occupied this niche alongside crocodylomorphs, archosauriformes, and pseudosuchians. Interestingly, these dinosaurs grew at least as quickly, but more continuously than sauropodomorph and theropod dinosaurs of the later Mesozoic. These data suggest that, while elevated growth rates were ancestral for Dinosauria and likely played a significant role in dinosaurs’ ascent within Mesozoic ecosystems, they did not set them apart from their contemporaries.
Fil: Curry Rogers, Kristina. Macalester College; Estados Unidos
Fil: Martínez, Ricardo Néstor. Universidad Nacional de San Juan. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto y Museo de Ciencias Naturales. Área de Paleontología de Vertebrados; Argentina
Fil: Colombi, Carina Ester. Universidad Nacional de San Juan. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto y Museo de Ciencias Naturales. Área de Paleontología de Vertebrados; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - San Juan. Centro de Investigaciones de la Geosfera y Biosfera. Universidad Nacional de San Juan. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Centro de Investigaciones de la Geosfera y Biosfera; Argentina
Fil: Rogers, Raymond. Macalester College; Estados Unidos
Fil: Alcober, Oscar Alfredo. Universidad Nacional de San Juan. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales. Instituto y Museo de Ciencias Naturales. Área de Paleontología de Vertebrados; Argentina
description Dinosauria debuted on Earth stage in the aftermath of the Permo-Triassic MEE and survived two other Triassic extinction intervals to eventually dominate terrestrial ecosystems. More than 231 million years ago, in the Upper Triassic Ischigualasto Formation of west-central Argentina, dinosaurs were just getting warmed up. At this time, dinosaurs represented a minor fraction of ecosystem diversity. Members of other tetrapod clades, including synapsids and pseudosuchians, shared convergently evolved features related to locomotion, feeding, respiration, and metabolism and could have risen to later dominance. However, it was Dinosauria that radiated in the later Mesozoic most significantly in terms of body size, diversity, and global distribution. Elevated growth rates are one of the adaptations that set later Mesozoic dinosaurs apart, particularly from their contemporary crocodilian and mammalian compatriots. When did the elevated growth rates of dinosaurs first evolve? How did the growth strategies of the earliest known dinosaurs compare with those of other tetrapods in their ecosystems? We studied femoral bone histology of an array of early dinosaurs alongside that of non-dinosaurian contemporaries from the Ischigualasto Formation in order to test whether the oldest known dinosaurs exhibited novel growth strategies. Our results indicate that the Ischigualasto vertebrate fauna collectively exhibits relatively high growth rates. Dinosaurs are among the fastest growing taxa in the sample, but they occupied this niche alongside crocodylomorphs, archosauriformes, and pseudosuchians. Interestingly, these dinosaurs grew at least as quickly, but more continuously than sauropodomorph and theropod dinosaurs of the later Mesozoic. These data suggest that, while elevated growth rates were ancestral for Dinosauria and likely played a significant role in dinosaurs’ ascent within Mesozoic ecosystems, they did not set them apart from their contemporaries.
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