Re: [dinosaur] Pterosaur with basihyal in hyoid tongue bone structure (free pdf)

Gesendet:=C2=A0Montag, 06=2E Januar 2020 um 16:57 Uhr
Von:=C2=A0"Ben Creisler" <bcreisler@gmail=2Ecom>
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>=C2=A0Shunxing Jiang, Zhiheng Li, Xin Cheng & Xiaolin Wang (2020)
> The first pterosaur basihyal, shedding light on the evolution and functi=
on of pterosaur hyoid apparatuses=2E
> PeerJ 8:e8292
>
> [=2E=2E=2E] Based on the structure of an elongated ceratobranchial and r=
etroarticular process on mandibles [=2E=2E=2E]

The illustrations confirm that those are the hypobranchials, not the cerat=
obranchials=2E And the epibranchials mentioned later are the ceratobranchia=
ls, not the epibranchials, which are absent throughout the tetrapod crown g=
roup no matter what that actually is, meaning no matter what the phylogenet=
ic positions of the modern amphibians are=2E

It all started with a 19th-century misinterpretation of the hyobranchial a=
pparatus of extant salamanders=2E=2E=2E