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Questioning Hagfish Affinities of the Enigmatic Devonian Vertebrate Palaeospondylus Questioning hagfish affinities of the enigmatic Devonian vertebrate Palaeospondylus Zerina Johanson, Moya Smith, Sophie Sanchez, Tim Senden, Kate Trinajstic, Cathrin Pfaff To cite this version: Zerina Johanson, Moya Smith, Sophie Sanchez, Tim Senden, Kate Trinajstic, et al.. Questioning hagfish affinities of the enigmatic Devonian vertebrate Palaeospondylus. Royal Society Open Science, The Royal Society, 2017, 4 (7), 8 p. 10.1098/rsos.170214. hal-01691895 HAL Id: hal-01691895 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01691895 Submitted on 24 Jan 2018 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Downloaded from http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/ on July 24, 2017 Questioning hagfish affinities of the enigmatic rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org Devonian vertebrate Research Palaeospondylus Cite this article: Johanson Z, Smith M, Zerina Johanson1, Moya Smith1,2, Sophie Sanchez3,4, Sanchez S, Senden T, Trinajstic K, Pfaff C. 2017 5 6 7 Questioning hagfish affinities of the enigmatic Tim Senden , Kate Trinajstic and Cathrin Pfaff Devonian vertebrate Palaeospondylus. R. Soc. 1Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK open sci. 4:170214. 2Tissue Engineering and Biophotonics, Dental Institute, King’s College London, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170214 London, UK 3Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden 4European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France 5Department of Applied Mathematics, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Received: 8 March 2017 Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia Accepted: 20 June 2017 6Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, Kent Street, Bentley, Perth, Australia 7Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria ZJ, 0000-0002-8444-6776;CP,0000-0001-5539-2097 Subject Category: Earth science Palaeospondylus gunni Traquair, 1890 is an enigmatic Devonian vertebrate whose taxonomic affinities have been debated Subject Areas: since it was first described. Most recently, Palaeospondylus has been identified as a stem-group hagfish (Myxinoidea). evolution/palaeontology However, one character questioning this assignment is the presence of three semicircular canals in the otic region of the Keywords: cartilaginous skull, a feature of jawed vertebrates. Additionally, Palaeospondylus, X-ray tomography, hagfish, new tomographic data reveal that the following characters of Chondrichthyes, jawed vertebrates, crown-group gnathostomes (chondrichthyans + osteichthyans) chondrocranium are present in Palaeospondylus: a longer telencephalic region of the braincase, separation of otic and occipital regions by the otico-occipital fissure, and vertebral centra. As well, a precerebral fontanelle and postorbital articulation of the Author for correspondence: palatoquadrate are characteristic of certain chondrichthyans. Zerina Johanson Similarities in the structure of the postorbital process to taxa e-mail: [email protected] such as Pucapampella, and possible presence of the ventral cranial fissure, both support a resolution of Pa. gunni as a stem chondrichthyan. The internally mineralized cartilaginous skeleton in Palaeospondylus may represent a stage in the loss of bone characteristic of the Chondrichthyes. Electronic supplementary material is available 1. Introduction online at https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9. Palaeospondylus gunni Traquair, 1890 is commonly found in the figshare.c.3817855. Middle Devonian Achanarras fish beds, Achanarras Quarry 2017 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. Downloaded from http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/ on July 24, 2017 (Scotland), part of a deeper-water lake fauna including jawless fishes ([1–3], but see [4] for possible 2 marine influence) and gnathostomes including placoderms, acanthodians and osteichthyans. The fishes rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org occur throughout several beds, with Palaeospondylus co-occurring with the lungfish Dipterus, the ................................................ acanthodian Mesacanthus, and the placoderm Pterichthyodes [5]. Previously, Palaeospondylus has been assigned to almost every major jawless and jawed vertebrate group and identified as both larval and adult [6–11]. Most recently, Hirasawa et al.[12] described similarities between Palaeospondylus and larvae of the extant hagfish Eptatretus burgeri, suggesting a hagfish affinity, and more particularly as a stem hagfish. However, new X-ray tomographic scans of Palaeospondylus provide important new details of cranial anatomy, particularly with respect to the otic capsule and vestibular system, allowing us to identify Palaeospondylus as a jawed vertebrate rather than a jawless hagfish. More specifically, crown- group gnathostome characteristics (elongate telencephalon of the braincase, vertebral centra) are present in Palaeospondylus, additionally the large L-shaped element on the lateral braincase is identified as a R. Soc. open sci. postorbital process, with the palatoquadrate articulating posteroventrally on this process. Along with a precerebral fontanelle, these suggest a chondrichthyan affinity for Palaeospondylus, with similarity to the stem chondrichthyans such as Pucapampella [13–15]. 4 2. Material and methods : 170214 2.1. Specimens Specimens of Pa. gunni examined are from the Middle Old Red Sandstone, Achanarras Quarry, Scotland, including NHMUK PV P.22392, P.59351, P.66582, P.59333, P.59645, P66582 (Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London). 2.2. X-ray tomography The Palaeospondylus chondrocranium was scanned from 10 micro slices by the ultrafine computed tomography (CT) scanner in the Department of Applied Mathematics, Australian National University, Australia and at beamline ID19, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France (see the electronic supplementary material for technical details). The high-resolution scans presented here all have a voxel size of 5 µm. A movie of the TIFF stack, from lateral to medial, is available at the Natural History Museum (NHM) Data Portal (see Data accessibility, below). Scans were three-dimensional volume rendered using DRISHTI v. 2.4 software (sf.anu.edu.au/Vizlab/drishti/). 2.3. Three-dimensional volumetric rendering We analysed the synchrotron data with the software CT-ANALYSER (v. 1.14.4.1) and CTVOX (v. 2.7.0) by Bruker/Skyscan. Working with different grey-values and transparency, CT-ANALYSER allowed us to distinguish the Pa. gunni specimen (P.66582) from the surrounding sediment. Details of the CTVOX settings are found in the electronic supplementary material. Three-dimensional segmentation of internal structures was not possible. 2.4. Macrophotography Specimens were photographed with a Canon EOS 1100D, and a Leica MZ microscope (Leica Application Suite 2.8.1), with images processed in ADOBE PHOTOSHOP (CC 2014.2.2) to improve contrast. 3. Results Individuals of Pa. gunni have a distinctive morphology, with a large chondrocranium, mandibular arch skeleton and extensive vertebral column with a well-developed caudal fin (figure 1e,g;[6]). More posterior branchial arches and paired appendages appear to be absent, even as imprints, as do unpaired dorsal and anal fins. The vertebral column comprises stout elements through most of its length but anteriorly displays an unusual series of vertebrae associated with two blade-like, posteriorly directed structures (figure 1; electronic supplementary material, figure S1). Palaeospondylus is normally preserved in dorsal (figure 1a,b,d,f ) or ventral view (figure 1e,g); new X-ray tomographic data allow for a modified three-dimensional visualization in lateral view (figure 1h;[16]), allowing for a revised Downloaded from http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/ on July 24, 2017 interpretation of the prominent L-shaped structure on the lateral face of the chondrocranium and the 3 element articulating to the posteroventral margin of this structure. A more complete examination of rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org Palaeospondylus morphology is provided in the electronic supplementary material; phylogenetically ................................................ relevant characters, particularly with respect to the recent identification of Palaeospondylus as a hagfish, are described below. 3.1. Phylogenetically important characters of Palaeospondylus The most recognizable parts of the Pa. gunni chondrocranium are the otic capsules at the posterior margin of the braincase (figure 1a,b,d,f ;ot,figure 2a,b), which occupy almost one-third of the cranium. Internally, the otic region preserves three relatively wide semicircular canals (figure 2;ASC,anteriorsemicircular canal; PSC, posterior semicircular canal; HSC, horizontal semicircular canal) and the three associated R. Soc. open sci. ampullae (aa; anterior ampulla; pa, posterior ampulla; ha, horizontal ampulla; figure 2b), which are filled partially with sediment. Additionally,
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