Gastralia

Crocodiles have the abdominal ribs modified into gastralia
Tyrannosaurus gastralia

Gastralia (sg.: gastralium) are dermal bones found in the ventral body wall of modern crocodilians and tuatara, and many prehistoric tetrapods. They are found between the sternum and pelvis, and do not articulate with the vertebrae. In these reptiles, gastralia provide support for the abdomen and attachment sites for abdominal muscles.

The possession of gastralia may be ancestral for Tetrapoda and were possibly derived from the ventral scales found in animals like rhipidistians, labyrinthodonts, and Acanthostega, and may be related to ventral elements of turtle plastrons.[1][2] Similar, but not homologous cartilagenous elements, are found in the ventral body walls of lizards and anurans. These structures have been referred to as inscriptional ribs,[2] based on their alleged association with the inscriptiones tendinae (the tendons that form the six pack in humans). However, the terminology for these gastral-like structures remains confused. Both types, along with sternal ribs (ossified costal cartilages), have been referred to as abdominal ribs, a term with limited usefulness that should be avoided.[2] Gastralia are also present in a variety of extinct animals, including theropod and prosauropod dinosaurs, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, choristoderes and some primitive pelycosaurs. In dinosaurs, the elements articulate with each other in a sort of zig-zag along the midline and may have aided in respiration.[2] Gastralia are known to be present in primitive ornithischian and sauropodomorph dinosaurs. However gastralia are only known from heterodontosaurid ornithschians, and gastralia are lost in eusauropodan sauropods.[3][4]

Discoveries about how the gastralia fit together in the skeleton of Sue the T. rex have led to an understanding that Tyrannosaurus bodies were more barrel-chested – and heavier – than previously thought.[5]

Terminology

The term "gastralia" was proposed by Georg Baur in 1898.[6] They had previously been termed "abdominal ribs",[7] but because the term "abdominal ribs" has been applied to various structures, and the gastralia are not true ribs, this is not considered an appopriate term.[6][2]

In turtles, where the gastralia are incorporated into the plastron, each pair of gastralia gets a distinct name: the hyoplastra, hypoplastra, xiphiplastra, and in some taxa the mesoplastra.[8]

Taxonomic distribution

Gastralia were ancestrally present in amniotes, but have been lost in many groups. Among extant taxa, they are only present in crocodylians and the tuatara, and in modified form as part of the plastron of turtles.[2] Gastralia are rarely preserved in therapsids, but have been identified in some dinocephalians and gorgonopsians and several anomodonts. However, they were probably genuinely absent in some dicynodonts, therocephalians, and cynodonts.[9] Most ornithischian dinosaurs lacked gastralia, but heterodontosaurids, one of the earliest-branching lineages of ornithischians, retained them.[10] Sauropods have been considered to lack gastralia.[2][11] Elements interpreted as gastralia have been rarely found in sauropods,[12] but it has been argued that these elements are more convincingly interpreted as sternal ribs.[11] Modern birds lack gastralia, but they were present in early lineages of birds, as in other theropods.[13]

Pathology

The Allosaurus fragilis specimen USNM 8367 contained several gastralia which preserve evidence of healed fractures near their middle. Some of the fractures were poorly healed and "formed pseudoarthroses." An apparent subadult male Allosaurus fragilis was reported by Laws to have extensive pathologies. The possible subadult A. jimmadseni[14] specimen MOR 693 also had pathological gastralia.[15] The left scapula and fibula of an Allosaurus fragilis specimen catalogued as USNM 4734 are both pathological, both probably due to healed fractures.[16]

The holotype of Neovenator salerii had many pathologies, including pseudoarthrotic gastralia and a deviation to the right of the third and fourth neural spines of the neck vertebrae.[16]

An immature dromaeosaurid specimen (which had not been described in the scientific literature as of 2001) from Tugrugeen Shireh was observed to have a "bifurcated" gastralium.[16]

In the Gorgosaurus libratus holotype (NMC 2120) the 13th and 14th gastralia have healed fractures. Another G. libratus specimen catalogued as TMP94.12.602 bears multiple pathologies, including a pseudoarthortic gastralium.[16]

The unidentified tyrannosaurid specimen TMP97.12.229 had a fractured and healed gastralium.[16]

References

  1. ^ Kardong KV (2002). Vertebrates: Comparative Anatomy, Function, Evolution (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 291–293. ISBN 0-07-290956-0.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Claessens LP (March 2004). "Dinosaur gastralia: origin, morphology, and function" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 24 (1): 89–106. Bibcode:2004JVPal..24...89C. doi:10.1671/A1116-8. S2CID 53318713.
  3. ^ Tschopp E, Mateus O (March 2013). "Clavicles, interclavicles, gastralia, and sternal ribs in sauropod dinosaurs: new reports from diplodocidae and their morphological, functional and evolutionary implications". Journal of Anatomy. 222 (3): 321–40. doi:10.1111/joa.12012. PMC 3582252. PMID 23190365.
  4. ^ Radermacher VJ, Fernandez V, Schachner ER, Butler RJ, Bordy EM, Naylor Hudgins M, et al. (July 2021). Long JA, Perry GH, Spencer M (eds.). "A new Heterodontosaurus specimen elucidates the unique ventilatory macroevolution of ornithischian dinosaurs". eLife. 10: e66036. doi:10.7554/eLife.66036. PMC 8260226. PMID 34225841.
  5. ^ "A Fresh Science Makeover for SUE". 30 November 2018. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  6. ^ a b Baur, Georg (1898). "Über die systematische Stellung der Microsaurier". Anatomischer Anzeiger. 14: 148–151.
  7. ^ Günther, Albert (1867-12-31). "Contribution to the anatomy of Hatteria (Rhynchocephalus, Owen)". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 157: 595–629. doi:10.1098/rstl.1867.0019. ISSN 0261-0523.
  8. ^ Rice, Ritva; Kallonen, Aki; Cebra-Thomas, Judith; Gilbert, Scott F. (2016-05-10). "Development of the turtle plastron, the order-defining skeletal structure". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113 (19): 5317–5322. Bibcode:2016PNAS..113.5317R. doi:10.1073/pnas.1600958113. eISSN 1091-6490. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 4868452. PMID 27114549.
  9. ^ Cisneros, Juan Carlos; Abdala, Fernando; Jashashvili, Tea; de Oliveira Bueno, Ana; Dentzien-Dias, Paula (2015). "Tiarajudens eccentricus and Anomocephalus africanus, two bizarre anomodonts (Synapsida, Therapsida) with dental occlusion from the Permian of Gondwana". Royal Society Open Science. 2 (7): 150090. Bibcode:2015RSOS....250090C. doi:10.1098/rsos.150090. ISSN 2054-5703. PMC 4632579. PMID 26587266.
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  11. ^ a b Fechner, Regina; Gößling, Rainer (2014). "The gastralial apparatus of Plateosaurus engelhardti: morphological description and soft-tissue reconstruction". Palaeontologia Electronica. 17 (1).
  12. ^ Tschopp, Emanuel; Mateus, Octávio (2013). "Clavicles, interclavicles, gastralia, and sternal ribs in sauropod dinosaurs: new reports from Diplodocidae and their morphological, functional and evolutionary implications". Journal of Anatomy. 222 (3): 321–340. doi:10.1111/joa.12012. ISSN 0021-8782. PMC 3582252. PMID 23190365.
  13. ^ O’Connor, Jingmai K; Zheng, Xiao-Ting; Wang, Xiao-Li; Zhang, Xiao-Mei; Zhou, Zhong-He (2015). "The gastral basket in basal birds and their close relatives: size and possible function". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 53 (2): 133–152.
  14. ^ Chure DJ, Loewen MA (2020). "Cranial anatomy of Allosaurus jimmadseni, a new species from the lower part of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Western North America". PeerJ. 8: e7803. doi:10.7717/peerj.7803. PMC 6984342. PMID 32002317.
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