New evidence of feathers in the Crato Formation supporting a reappraisal on the presence of Aves

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias - Tập 83 Số 1 - Trang 197-210 - 2011
Juliana Manso Sayão1, Antônio Álamo Feitosa Saraiva2, Angélica M. K. Uejima1
1Vitoria de Santo Antao, Pernambuco, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Centro Academico de Vitoria, Nucleo de Ciencias Biologicas, Brazil
2Crato, Ceara, Universidade Regional do Cariri, Departamento de Ciencias Fisicas e Biologicas, Brazil

Tóm tắt

The preservation of delicate structures such as feathers is very rare in the paleontological record, due to the fragility of their components. Fossil feathers have been reported from approximately 50 deposits around the world, from the Late Jurassic to the Pleistocene. In Brazil initial findings consisted of a primary feather of a large bird found in the Tremembé Formation. Other occurrences are preserved in the Crato Formation, where several symmetrical and one single asymmetrical feather was found. Based on three new specimens and reassessing further feather occurrences we cannot confirm the presence of volant Aves in this deposit. The presence of an asymmetrical feather without barbules and hooks hints at the previous existence of a flightless animal within this deposit, possibly a flightlessness bird or a non-avian theropod. Conversely, the presence of a feather from morphotype II present in Tyrannosauroidea, Compsognathidae, Therizinosauroidea and Dromeosauridae, points to a non-theropod origin. Since there are no confirmed records of birds and other feathered archosaurs in the region to date, more evidence is required to identify the animal from which these structures originated.

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