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Osteohistological study on vertebral development in fossil aquatic reptiles

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K13646
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Basic Section 17050:Biogeosciences-related
Research InstitutionTokyo City University

Principal Investigator

Nakajima Yasuhisa  東京都市大学, 理工学部, 准教授 (50792925)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2021-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2020)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Keywords古生物学 / 古脊椎動物 / 海生爬虫類 / 脊椎骨 / 脊索 / 骨組織学 / 発生学 / Evo-Devo / 椎骨 / 脊柱 / 中世代 / 進化発生学 / 脊椎動物 / 爬虫類 / 化石 / 水生爬虫類 / ボディプラン
Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this project, we analyzed vertebral microstructure of major Mesozoic aquatic reptiles including Choristodera, Hupehsuchia, Ichthyosauriformes, Plesiosauria and Mosasauridae, using micro-focus CT scan and thin-section analyses, in order to reconstruct developmental process. In each clade, unique developmental process is recognized. These patterns include mineralization of notochord tissue (Choristodera), perforation of centrum by notochord (Ichthyosauriform), and contribution of dermal skeletal element to the functional neural spine (Hupehsuchia), all of which is not observed in living amniote groups. In addition, bone histological analysis of marine reptile materials from Japan revealed that the presence of a large trionychid turtle, plesiosaur, and an unrecorded species of mosasaurid during the Cretaceous in this region.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

四足動物の椎骨は、魚類における基本体制から四足動物の各系統で多様化を遂げ、その後羊膜類では共通の体制へと安定化していったかのように考えられてきた。しかし中生代に入り、陸上環境から水中環境に二次的に適応した一部の羊膜類たちでは、発生過程で消滅すると考えられていた脊索を鉱物化させたり、棘突起と機能的に掃除な構造を皮骨の延長として形成したりと、実に自由度の高い形態形成メカニズムを獲得していることが明らかになった。本研究は現在の生き残りだけでなく、過去完全に絶滅した系統群の発生過程を詳細に解析することで、四足動物の形態形成機構に関する真のポテンシャルを明らかにしたと言える。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2020 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (23 results)

All 2021 2020 2019 2018 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (4 results) Journal Article (4 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 3 results) Presentation (11 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 4 results) Remarks (4 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] パリ国立自然史博物館(フランス)

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] ボン大学(ドイツ)

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] 合肥工業大学(中国)

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] ロシア科学アカデミー(ロシア連邦)

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Bone remains from Permian limestone in Mino Belt of Hatahoko area, Nyūkawa Town, Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture, Japan2021

    • Author(s)
      中島保寿,三宅幸雄,田中猛,甲能直樹
    • Journal Title

      Fossils

      Volume: 109 Issue: 0 Pages: 1-2

    • DOI

      10.14825/kaseki.109.0_1

    • NAID

      130008026160

    • ISSN
      0022-9202, 2424-2632
    • Year and Date
      2021-03-31
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] A second specimen of the crossognathiform fish Apsopelix miyazakii from the Cretaceous Yezo Group of Mikasa area, central Hokkaido, Japan2021

    • Author(s)
      Miyata, S., Yabumoto, Y., Nakajima., Y., Ito, Y. & Sasaki, T.
    • Journal Title

      Paleontological Research

      Volume: 未定

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 上部白亜系那珂湊層群から産出した“翼竜類”(ヒタチナカリュウ) 標本の分類学的再検討2020

    • Author(s)
      加藤太一・薗田哲平・中島保寿・安藤寿男
    • Journal Title

      茨城県自然博物館研究報告

      Volume: 23 Pages: 43-50

    • NAID

      40022483933

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 岩手県久慈市の上部白亜系久慈層群玉川層より 産出した板鰓類化石群の予察的検討2019

    • Author(s)
      宮田真也 ,平山 廉 ,中島保寿,前川 優 , 大倉正敏 ,佐々木猛智
    • Journal Title

      化石研究会会誌

      Volume: 51 Pages: 68-75

    • NAID

      40021863902

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] エラスモサウルス科首長竜類の咽頭内容物2021

    • Author(s)
      中島保寿・宇都宮聡・多久島徹
    • Organizer
      日本古生物学会第170回例会
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 北海道中川町上部白亜系から産出したツノザメ類 Protosqualus2021

    • Author(s)
      菅野詩織・中島保寿・御前明洋・疋田吉識・徳丸さやか・中垣周平・佐藤たまき
    • Organizer
      日本古生物学会第170回例会
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 南部北上帯下部三畳系大沢層から産出した破砕型の歯を伴う爬虫類化石2020

    • Author(s)
      中島保寿・古村俊行
    • Organizer
      日本古生物学会2020年例会
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report 2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 岐阜県下部デボン系福地層から産出した魚類鱗化石について2020

    • Author(s)
      中島保寿・宮田真也・三宅幸雄・小野 輝雄・佐々木理
    • Organizer
      2020年度日本魚類学会年会
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 北海道・中川町の白亜系蝦夷層群より産出した潜水鳥類化石2020

    • Author(s)
      青塚圭一・中島保寿・疋田吉識・遠藤秀紀
    • Organizer
      日本古生物学会2020年例会
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report 2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 「生きている生痕化石」の形成実験:カブトガニ類生痕に関する堆積学的・行動学的検討2019

    • Author(s)
      海野奏・中島保寿
    • Organizer
      日本古生物学会2019年年会
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Osteohistology of Hupehsuchia and developmental process of their unique body skeleton2019

    • Author(s)
      Yasuhisa Nakajima, Jun Liu, and Qiang Li
    • Organizer
      International Symposium on Palaeohistology 2019
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Microanatomical shift in plesiosaur vertebra: evolutionary and ecological significance2019

    • Author(s)
      HAYASHI, Shoji, NAKAJIMA, Yasuhisa, SATO, Tamaki, HOUSSAYE, Alexandra, WINTRICH, Tanja, HIKIDA, Yoshinori, NISHIMURA, Tomohiro, SANDER, P. Martin
    • Organizer
      Annual Meeting of Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2019
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Mineralized notochord-associated tissues preserved in fossil centra suggests a unique developmental pattern in the axial skeleton of Choristodera2019

    • Author(s)
      NAKAJIMA, Yasuhisa, MATSUMOTO, Ryoko, SANDER, P. Martin, SASAKI, Osamu, KANO, Harumasa, HAYASHI, Shoji & EVANS, Susan E
    • Organizer
      Annual Meeting of Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2019
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Bone microanatomy of Mesodermochelys, a Cretaceous shelled dermochelyid turtle2018

    • Author(s)
      Yasuhisa Nakajima, Shoji Hayashi, Ren Hirayama, Kazuhiko Sakurai, Takashi Ishihara, Yoshinori Hikida, Naoki Kamezaki
    • Organizer
      Turtle Evolution Symposium 2018
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 北海道三笠市に分布する白亜系三笠層より産出した 脊椎動物化石のタフォノミーおよび長頸竜類・翼竜類の新標本2018

    • Author(s)
      中島保寿,坂井俊博
    • Organizer
      第36回化石研究会総会・学術大会
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 1億年前の首長竜に現代の鳥に似た習性  ─ 世界初、未消化で吐き出した“ペリット”を発見 ─

    • URL

      https://www.tcu.ac.jp/news/all/20210208-34431/

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] 日本初、破砕型の歯を持つ海生爬虫類化石を宮城県気仙沼市にて発見

    • URL

      https://www.tcu.ac.jp/news/newsrelease/20200210-27918/

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 朝日新聞に、知識工学部自然科学科 中島保寿准教授らの研究成果が紹介されました(8/30)

    • URL

      https://www.tcu.ac.jp/news/all/20180914-17730/

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] Yasuhisa Nakajima Lab

    • URL

      https://www.fossiljapan.com/japanese

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2022-01-27  

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