The oldest record of aquatic amniote congenital scoliosis.
oleh: Tomasz Szczygielski, Dawid Surmik, Agnieszka Kapuścińska, Bruce M Rothschild
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| Diterbitkan: | Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01 |
Deskripsi
We report the first occurrence of congenital scoliosis in an early Permian aquatic parareptile, Stereosternum tumidum from Paraná state, Brazil. The spine malformation is caused by a congenital hemivertebra. These observations give insight into the biomechanical aspects of underwater locomotion in an axial skeleton-compromised aquatic amniote. This is the oldest record of a hemivertebra in an aquatic animal.