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An Ossified Meckel's Cartilage in Two Cretaceous Mammals and Origin Of R EPORTS 13. P. R. Cummins, B. L. N. Kennet, J. R. Bowman, M. G. corresponding to different regional types (shields, 29. A. Dziewonski, D. Anderson, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter. Bostock, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 82, 323 (1992). tectonically active regions, stable continents, and 25, 297 (1981). 14. H. M. Benz, J. E. Vidale, Nature 365, 147 (1993). oceans). The stacks exhibit somewhat different am- 30. Previous SS-precursor studies suggest a shear wave 15. We included 1530 events with a depth from 0 to 75 plitudes and, in particular, the shield stack shows a impedance contrast of 6 to 10% for the 410-km Յ Յ km, a magnitude of 6.0 Mw 7.0, and from smaller amplitude, confirming an earlier study (6). discontinuity and 10% for the 660-km discontinuity stations in the epicentral distance range 100¡ Յ ⌬ Յ 21. N. A. Simmons, H. Gurrola, Nature 405, 559 (2000). (9). 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The stacks are cross-correlated with the SS pulse; versity, St. Louis, MO, 1999), vol. 6, pp. 189Ð207. versity. We also acknowledge support under U.K. splitting is determined by two cross-correlation 27. T. Inoue, D. J. Weidner, P. A. Northrup, J. B. Parise, Natural Environment Research Council grant maxima (instead of one) in the depth range of 480 Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 160, 107 (1998). GR11534. to 600 km. 28. H. Yusa, T. Inoue, Y. Ohishi, Geophys. Res. Lett. 27, 20. We find single reflections from 520 km for stacks 413 (2000). 18 June 2001; accepted 24 August 2001 were discovered from the Yixian Formation An Ossified Meckel’s Cartilage of the lower Cretaceous in Liaoning, China (12). Of the two taxa, Repenomamus (11) in Two Cretaceous Mammals represents one of the largest Mesozoic mam- mals, and is most closely related to gobicon- odontids (13–15) in sharing basic structures and Origin of the Mammalian of jaws, teeth, occlusal pattern, and some cranial features (Figs. 1 to 3). Gobiconodon- Middle Ear tids are related to triconodontids within tri- conodonts, a diverse grade of basal mamma- Yuanqing Wang,1* Yaoming Hu,1,2,3 Jin Meng,2* Chuankui Li1 liaform groups with uncertain relationships An ossified Meckel’s cartilage has been recovered from two early Cretaceous (2, 15–18) (Fig. 3). Among these specimens, mammals from China. This element is similar to Meckel’s cartilage in prenatal a structure that we recognize as an ossified and some postnatal extant mammals and indicates the relationship of Meckel’s Meckel’s cartilage (OMC) was preserved in cartilage with the middle ear in early mammals. The evidence shows that brain two skulls of Repenomamus (IVPP speci- expansion may not be the initial factor that caused the separation of post- mens V12549 and V12728) and one skull of dentary bones from the dentary as middle ear ossicles during mammalian Gobiconodon (IVPP V12585). Of the two evolution. The failure of the dentary to seize reduced postdentary elements OMCs in Repenomamus, the one in V12549 during ontogeny of early mammals is postulated as an alternative mechanism is in its original location (Figs. 1, A to C, and for the separation. Modifications of both feeding and hearing apparatuses in 2, A and C), whereas the other in V12728 is early mammals may have led to the development of the definitive mammalian displaced and lies between the mandible and middle ear. the skull (Figs. 1D and 2B). The OMC is rod-like, with a pointed anterior tip and a In nonmammalian vertebrates with jaws, the lar, articular plus prearticular, and quadrate, flared posterior end. It measures 33 mm long craniomandibular joint is between the quad- to the cranium of mammals as strictly audi- in V12549 and 40 mm in V12728. The ante- rate region of the palatoquadrate and the ar- tory ossicles (renamed as the tympanic, mal- rior portion of the OMC in V12549 is lodged ticular region of Meckel’s cartilage (or its leus, and incus) (3). This transference is one in a depression that appears to be an expand- replacement). In unequivocal mammals (1, of the central topics of comparative anatomy ed posterior portion of the meckelian groove. 2), the joint is between the squamosal and the and evolutionary biology of vertebrates (3– The OMC-dentary contact may have had dentary. The definitive mammalian middle 8). Although developmental studies of extant some mobility. During preparation, the OMC ear (DMME) is formed by transference of mammals have long demonstrated homolo- was separated from the dentary. In all lower accessory jaw elements, including the angu- gies of these elements among jawed verte- jaws of Repenomamus, the anterior tip of the brates (9, 10), the only fossil evidence on this meckelian groove is below m3 (the third critical transference is the presence of persis- lower molariform tooth) and continues ante- 1Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoan- tent grooves on the medial surface of the riorly as a slit that parallels the course of the thropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Post dentary bone, which may have lodged the mandibular canal within the dentary. The Office Box 643, Beijing, 100044, China. 2Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History anterior end of the postdentary unit (PDU, mandibular canal, as revealed by radiograph- (AMNH), Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, consisting of the endochondral articular and ic imaging, is low in position, ventral to the NY 10024, USA. 3Biology Program (Ecology, Evolu- dermal prearticular, angular, and surangular) long roots of the check teeth, and extends tionary Biology, and Behavior), Graduate School and in some early mammals (3). anteriorly to the symphysis. The radiograph City College, City University of New York, NY 10016Ð 4309, USA. Four nearly complete Repenomamus adult shows that in lateral view, the mandibular skulls with articulated lower jaws (11) and canal turns slightly dorsally at the position *To whom correspondence should be addressed. E- mail: [email protected] (Y.W.); jmeng@ one with articulated lower jaws of an un- where the anterior tip of the OMC is situated, amnh.org (J.M.) named Gobiconodon species (Figs. 1 and 2) and extends posteriorly to the mandibular www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 294 12 OCTOBER 2001 357 R EPORTS foramen. Posterior to the mandibular fora- 5). The paradentary bones are platelike and fore, the shape and size of the bone in ques- men, the OMC curves medially to depart have no relationship with the basicranium (3, tion and its relationship to the dentary and from the dentary. A flat facet is on the dorsal 5, 19). Within the PDU, the articular has a cranium indicates that it is not any of the side of the free segment of the OMC (Fig. 1, retroarticular process and extends posteriorly accessory jaw bones or hyoid elements. The F and G). The flared posterior end of the to articulate with the quadrate. The surangu- bone is most probably the ossified middle OMC lies ventral to the lateral flange of the lar also extends posteriorly to articulate either portion of Meckel’s cartilage. Its shape and petrosal at the basicranial region (Fig. 2). with the squamosal or with the quadrate (3, 5, relation to the cranium and dentary are close- Rugosities on the posterior end of the OMC 19). The angular bears a reflected lamina and ly similar to those of Meckel’s cartilage of suggest that it was connected by ligament to is complex in shape. The prearticular in Mor- prenatal and some postnatal extant mammals the lateral flange during the mammal’s life- ganucodon is straight and posteriorly fused to (6, 8, 20–22). Even in fully grown juveniles time.
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