A New Cassiduloid (Echinodermata, Echinoidea) in the Albian of the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, Brazil

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

A New Cassiduloid (Echinodermata, Echinoidea) in the Albian of the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, Brazil Carnets Geol. 20 (3) E-ISSN 1634-0744 DOI 10.4267/2042/70719 A new Cassiduloid (Echinodermata, Echinoidea) in the Albian of the Sergipe-Alagoas basin, Brazil Cynthia Lara de Castro MANSO 1 Abstract: This paper presents a new discovery of the echinoid species Phyllobrissus humilis (GAUTHIER, 1875) from the Albian age Riachuelo Formation of the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin. The only specimen obtai- ned in the Maruim 1 outcrop expresses the main species characteristics. Paleoecological notes and a dichotomous key are presented to facilitate the identification of the cassiduloid species from the Creta- ceous of Sergipe-Alagoas Basin. Key-words: • echinoderms; • Phyllobrissus humilis (GAUTHIER); • Cassiduloida; • Cretaceous; • South America Citation: MANSO C.L.C. (2020).- A new Cassiduloid (Echinodermata, Echinoidea) in the Albian of the Sergipe-Alagoas basin, Brazil.- Carnets Geol., Madrid, vol. 20, no. 3, p. 29-35. Résumé : Un nouveau cassiduloïde (Echinodermata, Echinoidea) dans l'Albien du bassin de Sergipe-Alagoas, Brésil.- L'article décrit la découverte de l'espèce d'échinoïde Phyllobrissus humilis (GAUTHIER, 1875) dans la Formation Riachuelo d'âge Albien du bassin Sergipe-Alagoas. Le seul spéci- men récolté provient dans l'affleurement de Maruim 1 et permet d'observer les principales caractéristi- ques de l'espèce. Des informations paléoécologiques et une clé dichotomique sont présentées pour fa- ciliter l'identification des espèces de cassiduloïdes du Crétacé du bassin de Sergipe-Alagoas. Mots-clefs : • échinodermes ; • Phyllobrissus humilis (GAUTHIER) ; • Cassiduloida ; • Crétacé ; • Amérique du Sud 1. Introduction Cretaceous cassiduloids from Brazil were first recorded from the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin by WHI- Cassiduloids are irregular echinoids with peta- TE (1887). BEURLEN (1964a) reviewed some echi- loid ambulacra apically, with phylloid features noid species from this basin, while SMITH (in SMITH orally, specific buccal spines (floscelle) and a pe- & BENGTSON, 1991) later reviewed the taxa listed riproct situated within a groove. These forms rea- by WHITE (1887). The latter author recorded Nu- ched their acme during the Eocene, dwindling cleopygus cf. similis (ORBIGNY, 1856) from the subsequently and leaving a much smaller number Riachuelo Formation, reviewed Echinobrissus frei- of species today (KIER, 1962). To illustrate this tasii (WHITE, 1887) and transferred it to the ge- observation, there are only three species on re- nus Phyllobrissus COTTEAU, 1859, and erected a cord from the Miocene of Brazil, namely Rhyncho- new genus, Colliclypeus, to accommodate Cono- lampas oliveirai (SANTOS, 1958), Echinolampas clypus nettoanus WHITE, 1887. SMITH (in SMITH & paraensis SANTOS, 1958, and Rhyncholampas can- BENGTSON, 1991) also described a new taxon, didoi FERNANDES & CARREIRA MORAIS, 1994, all from Acriaster sergipensis, from the same lithostrati- the Pirabas Formation, Bragança-Viseu Basin. In graphical unit. Earlier, BRITO (1981) had reviewed addition, only two recent species of cassiduloid holectypoids and cassiduloids from Brazil, but had have been described from the Brazilian coast: not added any new species. In more recent stu- Cassidulus mitis KRAU, 1954, and C. infidus MOR- dies MANSO & SOUZA-LIMA (2005) recorded Pygo- TENSEN, 1948 (TOMMASI & LIMA VERDE, 1970; MOOI, rhynchus colombianus (COOKE, 1955) from the 1990a; SOUTO et al., 2011). Albian Riachuelo Formation, and finally, MANSO & 1Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Departamento de Biociências, Campus Prof. Alberto Carvalho, Av. Olimpio Campos s/nº, Itabaiana, 49500-000, Sergipe (Brazil) [email protected] Published online in final form (pdf) on February 22, 2020 [Editor: Bruno GRANIER; language editors: Stephen EAGAR and Bruno FERRÉ] 29 Carnets Geol. 20 (3) Figure 1: Locality map of the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin in northeastern Brazil (adapted from SOUZA -LIMA et al. , 2002). ANDRADE (2008) described Petalobrissus cubensis 2. Geological setting (WEISBORD , 1934) from the Turonian Cotinguiba Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of the Sergipe-Ala- The Sergipe-Alagoas Basin is located along the goas Basin. coast of the State of Sergipe, northeast of Brazil Other cassiduloid species were noted from (Fig. 1). The Aptian-Albian interval here represents Cretaceous strata of Brazil, from other sedimen- a deposition on a shallow, mixed siliciclastic-car- tary basins such as those of Potiguar and Araripe. bonate platform (MANSO & SOUZA -LIMA , 2017). For the former (Turonian-Coniacian intervals), The material studied here comes from levels MAURY (1925) described Parapygus mossoroensis , within the Riachuelo Formation that can be dated followed by Breynella baixadoleitensis by MAURY as early Albian on the basis of ammonites ( Dou- (1934). Later, SANTOS (1960) reassigned Parapy- villeiceras Zone) (SOUZA -LIMA et al. , 2002) . gus mossoroensis to Catopygus , while BEURLEN (1964b) recorded Phyllobrissus brasiliensis . SMITH 3. Material and methods (in SMITH & BENGTSON , 1991) revised taxa descri- The specimen illustrated here is housed in the bed by MAURY (1925), SANTOS (1960) and BEURLEN fossil echinoderm collections of the Fundação Pa- (1964b) and considered only two species to be leontologica Phoenix (FPH), Aracaju, Sergipe, valid, Petalobrissus cubensis and P. setifensis Brazil, and was systematically positioned accor- (COQUAND in COTTEAU , 1866). OLIVEIRA et al. ding to KROH & SMITH (2010). (2013) presented the most recent overview of For the description of the locality, the present cassiduloid species from the Potiguar Basin, and author follows the pattern adopted by BENGTSON finally, ALVES et al. (2018) added a new species, (1983, p. 30-33) to the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin Petalobrissus lehugeurae , from the Jandaíra For- (Fig. 1). The co-ordinates were obtained from the mation. From the Araripe Basin in northeastern Córrego Alegre datum and rounded off to the Brazil, BEURLEN (1966) listed two new species, nearest 50 metres. UTM coordinates are referen- Pygurus ( Echinopygus) tinocoi and Faujasia arari- ced to the central 39º meridian. Krm = Creta- pensis , from the Albian. Later, BRITO (1981) ceous Riachuelo Formation. transferred F. araripensis to the genus Pygidio- Maruim 1 - UTM 24S 8.813.587N / 710.353E lampas CLARK , 1923, while MANSO and HESSEL (GPS 10°43'36.0"S 37°04'35.6"W). Topographic (2007) systematically revised Pygidiolampas ara- map, sheet: SC. 24-Z-B-IV-2 Riachuelo. The out- ripensis , reassigning it to the genus Bothryop- crop is situated in a roadside section on the sou- neustes FOURTAU , 1924. thern margin of motorway SE-208, near the junc- In the present paper, the find of Phyllobrissus tion with motorway BR-101. cf. humilis represents a new record of a cassidu- Krm - Light-cream bioclastic calcarenite and loid from the Albian Riachuelo Formation of the locally oncolitic/oolitic bioclastic with isolated Sergipe-Alagoas Basin. patch reefs and microbial, yielding echinoids, bi- valves and ammonites (MANSO , 2003; MANSO & SOUZA -LIMA , 2012). 30 Carnets Geol. 20 (3) Figure 2: Phyllobrissus cf. humilis (GAUTHIER ): A. Dorsal (apical) view; B. Ventral (oral) view; C. Lateral view; D. Posterior View; E. Detail of the tubercles. Scale bar = 10 mm. 4. Systematic palaeontology Diagnosis: Test subovate, of small to medium size, ovate with truncate posterior; oral surface Phylum Echinodermata BRUGUIÈRE , 1791 slightly sunken towards the peristome. Apical system slightly anterior, tetrabasal, with four go- Class Echinoidea LESKE , 1778 nopores, posterior oculars elongate, no catenal plates. Petals long, parallel, open, extending two- Infraclass Irregularia LATREILLE , 1825 thirds of the way to ambitus, inner pore round, Superorder Neognathostomata outer pore slightly elongated transversely; all SMITH , 1981 ambulacral plates with double pores. Periproct towards the rear of the aboral surface; supramar- Family Nucleolitidae ginal, bordering on marginal, on an almost verti- AGASSIZ & DESOR 1847 cal face, with a short groove extending from lower edge of periproct to posterior edge of test. Genus Phyllobrissus COTTEAU , 1870 Peristome anterior, pentagonal, depressed, wider Phyllobrissus cf. humilis than high. Bourrelets absent. Phyllode structure unreported. No naked zone in posterior interam- (GAUTHIER , 1875) bulacrum orally (SMITH & KROH , 2011). Synonymy: Material: FPH-642-I. 1875 Echinobrissus humilis GAUTHIER in COTTEAU et al. , Locality and stratigraphical level: Maruim I, loc. cit. p. 11, Figs. 74-76. Riachuelo Formation, Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, Bra- 1884 Echinobrissus humilis GAUTHIER in COTTEAU et al. , zil. p. 79, Pl. 6, figs 5-7. Description: medium-sized test of the circular Type: Catopygus gresslyi L. AGASSIZ , 1839, p. outline, slightly high, with the oral side slightly 49; by subsequent designation of COTTEAU , 1860, concave and swollen (Fig. 2.A-C). Large tubercle p. 553. with well-marked areoles can be observed on the 31 Carnets Geol. 20 (3) Figure 3: Phyllobrissus cf. humilis (GAUTHIER ): A. Dorsal (apical) view; B. Ventral (oral) view; C. Lateral view; D. Apical system; E. Detail of phyllode. Scale bars equal 10 mm (A-C) and 1 mm (D- E). The grey areas correspond the poorly preserved areas. oral side of the test (Fig. 2.E). The tubercles on Table I: Biometric data for Phyllobrissus cf. humilis the aboral side are poorly preserved. (GAUTHIER , 1875). W - width; H - height; L - length; Apical disc tetrabasal are situated slightly an- Adab - apical disc to anterior border; Pab - peristome to teriorly, with four genital plates, genital 2 (ma- anterior border.
Recommended publications
  • Echinoidea Clypeasteroidea
    Biodiversity Journal, 2014, 5 (2): 291–358 Analysis of some astriclypeids (Echinoidea Clypeast- eroida) Paolo Stara1* & Luigi Sanciu2 1Centro Studi di Storia Naturale del Mediterraneo - Museo di Storia Naturale Aquilegia, Via Italia 63, Pirri-Cagliari and Geomuseo Monte Arci, Masullas, Oristano, Sardinia, Italy; e-mail: [email protected] *Corresponding author The systematic position of some astriclypeid species assigned through times to the genera Amphiope L. Agassiz, 1840 and Echinodiscus Leske, 1778 is reviewed based on the plating ABSTRACT pattern characteristics of these two genera universally accepted, and on the results of new studies. A partial re-arrangement of the family Astriclypeidae Stefanini, 1912 is herein pro- posed, with the institution of Sculpsitechinus n. g. and Paraamphiope n. g., both of them char- acterized by a peculiar plating-structure of the interambulacrum 5 and of the ambulacra I and V. Some species previously attributed to Amphiope and Echinodiscus are transferred into these two new genera. Two new species of Astriclypeidae are established: Echinodiscus andamanensis n. sp. and Paraamphiope raimondii n. sp. Neotypes are proposed for Echin- odiscus tenuissimus L. Agassiz, 1840 and E. auritus Leske, 1778, since these species were still poorly defined, due to the loss of the holotypes and, for E. auritus, also to the unclear geographical/stratigraphical information about the type-locality. A number of additional nom- inal fossil and extant species of "Echinodiscus" needs revision based on the same method. KEY WORDS Astriclypeidae; Amphiope; Paraamphiope; Echinodiscus; Sculpsitechinus; Oligo-Miocene. Received 28.02.2014; accepted 14.03.2014; printed 30.06.2014 Paolo Stara (ed.). Studies on some astriclypeids (Echinoidea Clypeasteroida), pp.
    [Show full text]
  • Taxonomía Y Biogeografía Ecológica De Los Equinoideos Irregulares (Echinoidea: Irregularia) De México
    Taxonomía y biogeografía ecológica de los equinoideos irregulares (Echinoidea: Irregularia) de México Alejandra Martínez-Melo1, 2, Francisco Alonso Solís-Marín2, Blanca Estela Buitrón-Sánchez3 & Alfredo Laguarda-Figueras2 1. Posgrado de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (PCML), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). México, D. F. 04510, México; [email protected] 2. Laboratorio de Sistemática y Ecología de Equinodermos, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (ICML), UNAM. Apdo. Post. 70-305, México, D. F. 04510, México; [email protected] 3. Departamento de Paleontología, Instituto de Geología (IG), UNAM, Cd. Universitaria, Delegación Coyoacán, México, D. F. 04510, México; [email protected] Recibido 04-VI-2014. Corregido 09-X-2014. Aceptado 04-XI-2014. Abstract: Taxonomy and ecologic biogeography of the irregular Echinoids (Echinoidea: Irregularia) from Mexico. Mexico owns 643 species of echinoderms, almost 10% of the known echinoderm species in the planet. Its geographic location -between the oceanic influences of the Western Central Atlantic and the Eastern Central Pacific- largely explains its enormous biological and ecological diversity. Research on echinoderms in Mexico began in the late nineteenth century; however, there are no reviews on its irregular echinoids. This work reviews the taxonomic and geographic information of irregular echinoids from Mexico, housed in four collections: 1) Colección Nacional de Equinodermos “Ma. Elena Caso Muñoz” from the Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (ICML), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM); 2) Invertebrate Zoology Collection, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., United States of America (USA); 3) Invertebrate Collection, Museum of Comparative Zoology, University of Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, USA and 4) Invertebrate Zoology, Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
    [Show full text]
  • Ecophenotypic Variation and Developmental Instability in the Late Cretaceous Echinoid Micraster Brevis (Irregularia; Spatangoida)
    RESEARCH ARTICLE Ecophenotypic Variation and Developmental Instability in the Late Cretaceous Echinoid Micraster brevis (Irregularia; Spatangoida) Nils Schlüter* Georg-August University of Göttingen, Geoscience Centre, Department of Geobiology, Goldschmidtstr. 3, 37077, Göttingen, Germany * [email protected] Abstract The Late Cretaceous echinoid genus Micraster (irregular echinoids, Spatangoida) is one of the most famous examples of a continuous evolutionary lineage in invertebrate palaeontol- ogy. The influence of the environment on the phenotype, however, was not tested so far. OPEN ACCESS This study analyses differences in phenotypical variations within three populations of Micra- Citation: Schlüter N (2016) Ecophenotypic Variation ster (Gibbaster) brevis from the early Coniacian, two from the Münsterland Cretaceous and Developmental Instability in the Late Cretaceous Basin (Germany) and one from the North Cantabrian Basin (Spain). The environments of Echinoid Micraster brevis (Irregularia; Spatangoida). the Spanish and the German sites differed by their sedimentary characteristics, which are PLoS ONE 11(2): e0148341. doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0148341 generally a crucial factor for morphological adaptations in echinoids. Most of the major phe- notypical variations (position of the ambitus, periproct and development of the subanal fas- Editor: Steffen Kiel, Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, SWEDEN ciole) among the populations can be linked to differences in their host sediments. These phenotypic variations are presumed to be an expression of phenotpic plasticiy, which has Received: November 11, 2015 not been considered in Micraster in previous studies. Two populations (Erwitte area, Ger- Accepted: January 15, 2016 many; Liencres area, Spain) were tested for stochastic variation (fluctuating asymmetry) Published: February 5, 2016 due to developmental instability, which was present in all studied traits.
    [Show full text]
  • CLASSIFICATION of ECHINODERMATA: -- Subclass 3
    P a g e | 1 Dr. Minakshi Kumari B.Sc. Part-I P.G. Dept. Of Zoology, Zoology (Hons.) Maharaja College, ARA. Paper – I– A. Contd..... CLASSIFICATION OF ECHINODERMATA: -- Subclass 3. Irregularia 1. Body oval or circular, flattened oral-aborally. 2. Mouth central or displaced anteriorly on oral surface. 3. Anus marginal, outside the apical system of plates. 4. Tube feet generally not locomotor. Order 1. Holectypoida 1. Test regular with simple ambulacral and centrally located peristome and apical system. 2. Lantern present. 3. Mostly extinct. Examples : Holectypus, Echinoneus. Order 2. Cassiduloida 1. Aboral ambulacral areas petaloid, forming a five-armed figure like petals of a flower. 2. Lantern absent. 3. Mostly extinct. Examples : Cassidulus P a g e | 2 Order 3. Clypeastroida 1. Test flattened with oval or rounded shape. 2. Mouth central, anus excentric. 3. Aboral ambulacral areas petaloid. 4. Aristotle's lantern present. 5. Gills absent. 6. Bottom dwellers. Examples: Sand dollars : Clypeaster, Echinarachinus. Order 4. Spatangoida 1. Test oval or heart-shaped with excentric mouth and anus. 2. Four aboral ambulacral areas pataloid. 3. Lantern absent. 4. Gills absent. 5. Burrowing. Examples : Heart urchins; Spatangus, Echinocardium lovenia, Hemipneustes. P CLASS 4. Holothuroidea (Gr., holothurion, sea cucumber + eidos, form) 1. Sea cucumbers. 2. No arms and no spines. 3. Body elongate on oral-aboral axis, body wall leathery. P a g e | 3 4. Mouth anterior, surrounded by tentacles. 5. Ambulacral grooves concealed , tube feet with suckers. 6. Usually with respiratory tree for respiration. Order 1. Dendrochirota 1. Tentacles irregularly branched. 2. Tube feet numerous, on the sole or all ambulacral or entire surface.
    [Show full text]
  • A Geological and Geophysical Study Of
    A GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL STUDY OF THE SERGIPE-ALAGOAS BASIN A Thesis by BRADLEY MELTON Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE May 2008 Major Subject: Geophysics A GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL STUDY OF THE SERGIPE-ALAGOAS BASIN A Thesis by BRADLEY MELTON Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE Approved by: Chair of Committee, Philip Rabinowitz Committee Members, Hongbin Zhan William Bryant Head of Department, Andreas Kronenberg May 2008 Major Subject: Geophysics iii ABSTRACT A Geological and Geophysical Study of the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin. (May 2008) Bradley Melton, B.S., Texas A&M University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Philip Rabinowitz Extensional stresses caused Africa and South America to break up about 130 Million Years. When Africa rifted away from South America, a large onshore triple junction began at about 13° S and propagated northward. This triple junction failed and created the Reconcavo-Tucano-Jupato rift (R-T-J), located in northeastern Brazil (north of Salvador). The extensional stress that created this rift was caused by a change in the force acting on the plate during the Aptian. A series of offshore rifts also opened at this time, adjacent to the R-T-J rift; this series of basins are referred to as Jacuipe, Sergipe, and Alagoas (J-S-A). The basins are separated by bathymetric highs to the north and the south of the Sergipe-Alagoas basin.
    [Show full text]
  • SI Appendix for Hopkins, Melanie J, and Smith, Andrew B
    Hopkins and Smith, SI Appendix SI Appendix for Hopkins, Melanie J, and Smith, Andrew B. Dynamic evolutionary change in post-Paleozoic echinoids and the importance of scale when interpreting changes in rates of evolution. Corrections to character matrix Before running any analyses, we corrected a few errors in the published character matrix of Kroh and Smith (1). Specifically, we removed the three duplicate records of Oligopygus, Haimea, and Conoclypus, and removed characters C51 and C59, which had been excluded from the phylogenetic analysis but mistakenly remain in the matrix that was published in Appendix 2 of (1). We also excluded Anisocidaris, Paurocidaris, Pseudocidaris, Glyphopneustes, Enichaster, and Tiarechinus from the character matrix because these taxa were excluded from the strict consensus tree (1). This left 164 taxa and 303 characters for calculations of rates of evolution and for the principal coordinates analysis. Other tree scaling methods The most basic method for scaling a tree using first appearances of taxa is to make each internal node the age of its oldest descendent ("stand") (2), but this often results in many zero-length branches which are both theoretically questionable and in some cases methodologically problematic (3). Several methods exist for modifying zero-length branches. In the case of the results shown in Figure 1, we assigned a positive length to each zero-length branch by having it share time equally with a preceding, non-zero-length branch (“equal”) (4). However, we compared the results from this method of scaling to several other methods. First, we compared this with rates estimated from trees scaled such that zero-length branches share time proportionally to the amount of character change along the branches (“prop”) (5), a variation which gave almost identical results as the method used for the “equal” method (Fig.
    [Show full text]
  • Decreto N 30.909 – Ssp – Altera 22.11.17. Aisps
    GOVERNO DE SERGIPE DECRETO Nº 30.909 DE 21 DE NOVEMBRO DE 2017 Altera e transforma em Anexo Único os Anexos I, II e III do Decreto nº 30.116, de 20 de Novembro de 2015, e dá providências correlatas. O GOVERNADOR DO ESTADO DE SERGIPE, no uso das atribuições que lhe são conferidas nos termos do art. 84, incisos V, VII e XXI, da Constituição Estadual; e de acordo com disposições da Lei nº 7.950, de 29 de dezembro de 2014, e Considerando que as alterações a serem promovidas no Decreto nº 30.116, de 20 de novembro de 2015, o qual dispõe sobre as Áreas Integradas de Segurança Pública - AISP, objetivam adequá-lo à realidade atualmente posta; Considerando que nas reuniões promovidas no âmbito do Gabinete de Gestão Operacional, observou-se, de maneira técnico- científica, que as discussões travadas no Gabinete Integrado de Monitoramento de Resultados – GIMR, denotaram a imprescindibilidade das Delegacias de Polícia Civil existentes nos Municípios de Itaporanga D’Ajuda, Laranjeiras, Maruim, Riachuelo e Santo Amaro das Brotas, voltarem a integrar a estrutura organizacional da Coordenadoria de Polícia Civil do Interior – COPCI; Considerando que estudos realizados evidenciaram que as Áreas Metropolitanas das quais os mencionados municípios faziam parte tiveram um assoberbamento significativo de demanda, além disso, as especificidades territoriais e culturais de cada um deles destoam das que são enfrentadas pelas mencionadas áreas; Considerando, por fim, que a recente edição da Lei nº 8.272/2017 acabou por incorporar ao ordenamento jurídico estadual o instituto da situação transitória de acumulação profissional de Delegacias no Interior do Estado, de maneira que os ajustes normativos são inevitáveis; D E C R E T A: Art.
    [Show full text]
  • Análise Da Qualidade Dos Serviços De Abastecimento De Água Dos Municípios Operados Pela Companhia De Saneamento De Sergipe - Deso
    ANÁLISE DA QUALIDADE DOS SERVIÇOS DE ABASTECIMENTO DE ÁGUA DOS MUNICÍPIOS OPERADOS PELA COMPANHIA DE SANEAMENTO DE SERGIPE - DESO Ref.: Boletim da Região Centro-Oeste. CÂMARA TÉCNICA DE SANEAMENTO Aracaju/SE 2º Trimestre de 2020 Sumário 1 AGRESE ............................................................................................................................... 3 2 COMPANHIA DE SANEAMENTO DE SERGIPE – DESO .............................................. 3 3 REGIÃO CENTRO-OESTE ................................................................................................. 4 4 PARÂMETROS ANALISADOS .......................................................................................... 5 5 RESULTADOS ..................................................................................................................... 6 5.1 Município de Areia Branca ...................................................................................................... 6 5.2 Município de Campo do Brito ............................................................................................... 10 5.3 Município de Divina Pastora.................................................................................................. 14 5.4 Município de General Maynard ............................................................................................ 18 5.5 Município de Itabaiana .......................................................................................................... 22 5.6 Município de Laranjeiras ......................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Cell Type Phylogenetics Informs the Evolutionary Origin of Echinoderm Larval Skeletogenic Cell Identity
    ARTICLE https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0417-3 OPEN Cell type phylogenetics informs the evolutionary origin of echinoderm larval skeletogenic cell identity Eric M. Erkenbrack 1,2 & Jeffrey R. Thompson3,4 1234567890():,; The multiplicity of cell types comprising multicellular organisms begs the question as to how cell type identities evolve over time. Cell type phylogenetics informs this question by com- paring gene expression of homologous cell types in distantly related taxa. We employ this approach to inform the identity of larval skeletogenic cells of echinoderms, a clade for which there are phylogenetically diverse datasets of spatial gene expression patterns. We deter- mined ancestral spatial expression patterns of alx1, ets1, tbr, erg, and vegfr, key components of the skeletogenic gene regulatory network driving identity of the larval skeletogenic cell. Here we show ancestral state reconstructions of spatial gene expression of extant eleutherozoan echinoderms support homology and common ancestry of echinoderm larval skeletogenic cells. We propose larval skeletogenic cells arose in the stem lineage of eleutherozoans during a cell type duplication event that heterochronically activated adult skeletogenic cells in a topographically distinct tissue in early development. 1 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511 USA. 2 Yale Systems Biology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, CT 06516, USA. 3 Department of Geosciences, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76706, USA. 4 Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740, USA. Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to E.M.E. (email: [email protected]) or to J.R.T. (email: [email protected]) COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY | (2019) 2:160 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0417-3 | www.nature.com/commsbio 1 ARTICLE COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0417-3 ell types are evolutionary units that have diversified in once in the stem lineage of eleutherozoan echinoderms.
    [Show full text]
  • Mark Goodwin Retires! Mccone Hall
    News Newsletter of the University of California Museum of Paleontology May 2019 Left: Mark Goodwin circa 1979, preparing the icthyosaur reconstruction, then on display in Mark Goodwin retires! McCone Hall. Center: Mark in Ethiopia collecting a sauropod fossil, 2016. Right: From left to right: Dave Evans, Greg Wilson, Bill Clemens, and Mark Goodwin at the Hell Creek Formation in Montana, summer 2018. All photos courtesy of Mark Goodwin. In the summer of 2018, after a after one more semester at UMass River Formation in Montana, but still UCMP career spanning 40 years, Amherst, Farish Jenkins offered Mark under Bill’s guiding hand. Mark Goodwin officially hung up his a job in the Museum of Comparative hammer. Growing up in Worcester Zoology at Harvard University, where Mark would soon complete his (‘Wusta’), Massachusetts, a life-long he worked in the fossil prep lab with Master’s degree on the geology career all the way out in Berkeley, Bill Amaral, and in the vertebrate and paleontology of the Campanian California, must have seemed collections with Chuck Schaff. All Judith River Formation exposed near inconceivable to the young Mark. But three would end up as mentors, Rudyard, Montana, with Bill as his with serendipity and perseverance, it lifelong friends, and colleagues, also thesis advisor. Back at UCMP, Mark nonetheless came to pass. introducing Mark to fieldwork in supervised the UCMP preparation Montana and Wyoming. lab, becoming an expert in molding Mark began his formal preparation and casting fossils. His interest as a vertebrate paleontologist as an On the weight of this experience, in dinosaur growth and behavior undergraduate at UMass Amherst, Mark was hired by UCMP in the fall of deepened after discovering a majoring in geology and zoology.
    [Show full text]
  • Echinodermata: Echinoidea) of Mexico
    Caballero-Ochoa, A.A., Buitrón-Sánchez, B.E., Conejeros- Vargas, C.A., Esteban-Vázquez, B.L., Ruiz-Nava, M.P., Jiménez-López, J.C., Solís-Marín, F.A., & Laguarda-Figueras, A. (2021). Morphological variability of recent species of the order Cassiduloida (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) of Mexico. Revista de Biología Tropical, 69(S1), 423-437. DOI 10.15517/ rbt.v69iSuppl.1.46382 DOI 10.15517/rbt.v69iSuppl.1.46382 Morphological variability of recent species of the order Cassiduloida (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) of Mexico Andrea Alejandra Caballero-Ochoa1,2* Blanca E. Buitrón-Sánchez3 Carlos A. Conejeros-Vargas4 Brenda L. Esteban-Vázquez1 Mariana P. Ruiz-Nava5 José Carlos Jiménez-López6 Francisco A. Solís-Marín7 Alfredo Laguarda-Figueras7 1. Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Circuito Exterior, C.P. 04510, Ciudad de México, México; [email protected] (*Correspondence), [email protected] 2. Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, C.P. 04510, Ciudad de México, México. 3. Instituto de Geología, Departamento de Paleontología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior, C.P. 04510, Ciudad de México, México; [email protected] 4. Posgrado en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, C.P. 04510, Coyoacán, Ciudad de México, México; [email protected] 5. Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Av. de Los Barrios 1, Tlalnepantla de Baz, C.P. 54090, Estado de México, México; [email protected] 6. Posgrado en Ciencias de la Tierra, Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Circuito Exterior, C.P. 04510, Ciudad de México, México; [email protected] 7.
    [Show full text]
  • Phylogeny and Origin of Jurassic Irregular Echinoids (Echinodermata: Echinoidea)
    Geol. Mag. 144 (2), 2007, pp. 333–359. c 2007 Cambridge University Press ! 333 doi:10.1017/S0016756806003001 First published online 19 December 2006 Printed in the United Kingdom Phylogeny and origin of Jurassic irregular echinoids (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) THOMAS SAUCE` DE ∗ , RICH MOOI & BRUNO DAVID ∗ § ‡ ∗UMR CNRS 5561 Biogeosciences,´ Universite´ de Bourgogne, 6 bd Gabriel, F-21000 Dijon, France California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA ‡ (Received 26 September 2005; accepted 17 May 2006) Abstract – A phylogenetic analysis of Jurassic irregular echinoids is realized to explore the origin and early evolution of this important subset of echinoids. The phylogeny is based on 39 characters and considers data from apical system architecture, the corona including tuberculation and spines, Aristotle’s lantern, and general test shape. Results corroborate the monophyly of Irregularia, and clarify the phylogenetic interrelationships existing between the main groups of irregular echinoids. Specializations of the Aristotle’s lantern, spines, tubercles and phyllodes constitute the apomorphies for different taxa, as for the whole of Irregularia. The phylogenetic signal yielded by these characters highlights the importance of the environmental context of the origin and diversification of irregular echinoids. The definition of ‘irregularity’ is re-examined, rejecting exocyclism and characters of the apical system as appropriate synapomorphies, and stressing the importance of other characters, particularly the high density and small size of tubercles and spines. A new clade name, Infraclypeidae [P], and phylocode designations (stem-based diagnoses) are proposed for the clades Irregularia, Eognathostomata, Microstomata, Neognathostomata and Atelostomata. Other groupings formerly used (Pygasteroida, Galeropygidae and Menopygidae) are considered paraphyletic. Keywords: Irregularia, Echinoidea, phylogeny, systematics, Jurassic.
    [Show full text]