Английская Википедия:Dunkleosteus

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Dunkleosteus is an extinct genus of large arthrodire ("jointed-neck") fish that existed during the Late Devonian period, about 382–358 million years ago. It was a pelagic fish inhabiting open waters, and one of the first apex predators of any ecosystem.[1]

Dunkleosteus consists of ten species, some of which are among the largest placoderms ("plate-skinned") to have ever lived: D. terrelli, D. belgicus, D. denisoni, D. marsaisi, D. magnificus, D. missouriensis, D. newberryi, D. amblyodoratus, D. raveri, and D. tuderensis. The largest and best known species is D. terrelli. Since body shape is not known, various methods of estimation put the living total length of the largest known specimen between Шаблон:Convert long and weigh around Шаблон:Convert.[2] However, lengths of Шаблон:Convert or more are poorly supported and the most extensive analyses support smaller size estimates.[2][3]

Dunkleosteus could quickly open and close its jaw, creating suction like modern-day suction feeders, and had a bite force that is considered the highest of any living or fossil fish, and among the highest of any animal. Fossils of Dunkleosteus have been found in North America, Poland, Belgium, and Morocco.

Discovery

Dunkleosteus fossils were first discovered in 1867 by Jay Terrell, a hotel owner and amateur paleontologist who collected fossils in the cliffs along Lake Erie near his home of Sheffield Lake, Ohio (due west of Cleveland), United States. Terrell donated his fossils to John Strong Newberry and the Ohio Geological Survey, who in 1873 described all the material as belonging to a single new genus and species: Dinichthys herzeri. However, with later fossil discoveries, by 1875 it became apparent multiple large fish species were present in the Ohio Shale. Dinichthys herzeri came from the lowermost layer, the Huron Shale, whereas most of the fossils were coming from the younger Cleveland Shale and represented a distinct species.[4] Newberry named this more common species "Dinichthys" terrelli, after Terrell.[5] Most of Terrell's original collection does not survive, having been destroyed by a fire in Elyria, Ohio, in 1873.[4][6] Dunkleosteus fossils can also be found in the Birdsong Shale formation in Tennessee.

The largest collection of Dunkleosteus fossils in the world is housed at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History,[7] with smaller collections (in descending order of size) held at the American Museum of Natural History,[8] Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History,[9] Yale Peabody Museum,[10] the Natural History Museum in London, and the Cincinnati Museum Center. Specimens of Dunkleosteus are on display in many museums throughout the world (see table below), most of which are casts of the same specimen: CMNH 5768, the largest well-preserved individual of D. terrelli.[2][11] The original CMNH 5768 is on display in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Taxonomy

Dunkleosteus was named by Jean-Pierre Lehman in 1956 to honour David Dunkle (1911–1984), former curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. The genus name Dunkleosteus combines David Dunkle's surname with the Greek word Шаблон:Wikt-lang (Шаблон:Transliteration 'bone'), literally meaning "Dunkle's bone".[12]

Originally thought to be a member of the genus Dinichthys, Dunkleosteus was later recognized as belonging to its own genus in 1956. It was thought to be closely related to Dinichthys, and they were grouped together in the family Dinichthyidae. However, in the phylogenetic analysis of Carr and Hlavin (2010), Dunkleosteus and Dinichthys were found to belong to separate clades of arthrodires: Dunkleosteus belonged to a group called the Dunkleosteoidea while Dinichthys belonged to the distantly related Aspinothoracidi. Carr & Hlavin resurrected the family Dunkleosteidae and placed Dunkleosteus, Eastmanosteus, and a few other genera from Dinichthyidae within it.[13] Dinichthyidae, in turn, is left a monospecific family, though closely related to arthrodires like Gorgonichthys and Heintzichthys.[14]

Файл:Dunkleosteus terrelli (fossil fish) (Cleveland Shale Member, Ohio Shale, Upper Devonian; Rocky River Valley, Cleveland, Ohio, USA) 25 (34091142396).jpg
Front view of D. terrelli skull

The cladogram below from the study of Zhu & Zhu (2013) shows the placement of Dunkleosteus within Dunkleosteidae and Dinichthys within the separate clade Aspinothoracidi:[15] Шаблон:Clade

Alternatively, the subsequent 2016 Zhu et al. study using a larger morphological dataset recovered Panxiosteidae well outside of Dunkleosteoidea, leaving the status of Dunkleosteidae as a clade grouping separate from Dunkleosteoidea in doubt, as shown in the cladogram below:[16] Шаблон:Clade

Species

At least ten different species[13][17] of Dunkleosteus have been described so far. However, many of them are poorly characterized and may be synonyms of previously named species or not pertain to Dunkleosteus.[18] Dunkleosteus as currently defined is a wastebasket taxon for large dunkleosteoid arthrodires that are more evolutionarily derived than Eastmanosteus.[18]

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Labelled skull diagram of D. terrelli

The type species, D. terrelli, is the largest, best-known species of the genus. Size estimates for this species range from Шаблон:Convert in length, though estimates greater than 4.5 m are poorly supported.[3][2] Skulls of this species can be up to Шаблон:Convert in length.[2] D. terrelliШаблон:'s fossil remains are found in Upper Frasnian to Upper Famennian Late Devonian strata of the United States (Huron, Chagrin, and Cleveland Shales of Ohio, the Conneaut and Chadakoin Formations of Pennsylvania, the Chattanooga Shale of Tennessee, the Lost Burro Formation of California, and possibly the Ives breccia of Texas[17]) and Europe.

D. belgicus (?) is known from fragments described from the Famennian of Belgium. The median dorsal plate is characteristic of the genus, but, a plate that was described as a suborbital is an anterolateral.[17] Lelièvre (1982) considers this taxon a nomen dubium ("doubtful name") and suggests the material may actually pertain to Ardennosteus.[19]

D. denisoni is known from a small median dorsal plate, typical in appearance for Dunkleosteus, but much smaller than normal. It is comparable in skull structure to D. marsaisi.[17]

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D. marsaisi skull

D. marsaisi refers to the Dunkleosteus fossils from the Lower Famennian Late Devonian strata of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. It differs in size, the known skulls averaging a length of Шаблон:Convert and in form to D. terrelli. In D. marsaisi, the snout is narrower, and a postpineal fenestra may be present. Many researchers and authorities consider it a synonym of D. terrelli.[20] H. Schultze regards D. marsaisi as a member of Eastmanosteus.[17][21]

D. magnificus is a large placoderm from the Frasnian Rhinestreet Shale of New York. It was originally described as Dinichthys magnificus by Hussakof and Bryant in 1919, then as "Dinichthys mirabilis" by Heintz in 1932. Dunkle and Lane (1971) moved it to Dunkleosteus,[17] whereas Dennis-Bryan (1987) considered it to belong to the genus Eastmanosteus.[22] This species has a skull length of Шаблон:Convert and a total estimated length of approximately Шаблон:Convert.[18]

D. missouriensis is known from fragments from Frasnian Missouri. Dunkle and Lane regard them as being very similar to D. terrelli.[17]

D. newberryi is known primarily from a Шаблон:Convert long infragnathal with a prominent anterior cusp, found in the Frasnian portion of the Genesee Group of New York, and originally described as Dinichthys newberryi.[17] Lebedev et al. (2023) noted D. newberryi has an unusually long marginal tooth row compared to other species of Dunkleosteus and lacks the accessory odontoids typical of this genus, suggesting it might not belong to Dunkleosteus or even Dunkleosteoidea.[18]

D. amblyodoratus is known from some fragmentary remains from Late Devonian strata of Kettle Point Formation, Ontario. The species name means 'blunt spear' and refers to the way the nuchal and paranuchal plates in the back of the head form the shape of a blunted spearhead.[13]

D. raveri is a small species, possibly 1 meter long, known from an uncrushed skull roof found in a carbonate concretion from near the bottom of the Huron Shale, of the Famennian Ohio Shale strata. Besides its small size, it had comparatively large eyes. Because D. raveri was found in the strata directly below the strata where the remains of D. terrelli are found, D. raveri may have given rise to D. terrelli. The species name commemorates Clarence Raver of Wakeman, Ohio, who discovered the concretion containing the holotype.[13]

D. tuderensis is known from an infragnathal found in the lower-middle Famennian-aged Bilovo Formation of the Tver Region in northwest Russia. The specific name refers to the Maliy Tuder River as the holotype was found on its bank.[18]

In total, of the ten or so species listed above only four are agreed upon as valid species of Dunkleosteus by all researchers: D. terrelli (which may or may not include Dunkleosteus material from Morocco), D. raveri, D. tuderensis, and possibly D. amblyodoratus (which is known from limited material that appears distinct but is difficult to compare with other dunkleosteids). The taxonomy of early late Devonian (Frasnian) species is poorly established, whereas latest Devonian (Famennian) species are easily referable to this genus. This is not counting additional material assigned to Dunkleosteus sp. from the Famennian of California, Texas, Tennessee, and Poland.[18][23]

Description

Size and anatomy

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Comparison of multiple size estimates for D. terrelli

Dunkleosteus was covered in dermal bone forming armor plates across its skull and front half of its trunk. This armor is often described as being over Шаблон:Convert thick,[24][13] but this is only across the thickened nuchal plate at the back of the skull.[13] Thickening of the nuchal plate is a common feature of eubrachythoracid arthrodires.[25][26] Across the rest of the body the armor is generally much thinner, only about Шаблон:Convert in thickness.[27] The plates of Dunkleosteus had both a hard cortical and a marrow-filled cancellous layer, unlike most teleost fishes and more similar to tetrapod bones.[2][28]

Mainly the armored frontal sections of specimens have been fossilized, and consequently, the appearance of the other portions of the fish is mostly unknown.[29] In fact, only about 5% of Dunkleosteus specimens have more than a quarter of their skeleton preserved.[30] Because of this, many reconstructions of the hindquarters are often based on fossils of smaller arthrodires, such as Coccosteus, which have preserved hind sections,[2] leading to widely varying size estimates.[2]

Dunkleosteus is one of the largest known placoderms, with its maximum size being variably estimated as anywhere from Шаблон:Convert by different researchers.[31][32][11][33][2] However, most cited length estimates are speculative and lack quantitative or statistical backing, and lengths of Шаблон:Convert or more are poorly supported.[11][2] Most studies that estimate the length of Dunkleosteus do not provide information as to how these estimates were calculated, the measurements used to scale them, or which specimens were examined. Most are implied to be based on either CMNH 5768 (the largest complete armor of Dunkleosteus) or CMNH 5936 (the largest known jaw fragment). Шаблон:Multiple imageMost of the studies with well-defined methods produce lengths of Шаблон:Convert or less for Dunkleosteus terrelli,[2] with the exception of Ferrón et al. (2017), which produces larger estimates of Шаблон:Convert based on upper jaw perimeter of modern sharks.[11] However, arthrodires have proportionally larger mouths than modern sharks, making the lengths estimated by Ferrón et al. (2017) unreliable.[3] Upper jaw perimeter overestimates the size of complete arthrodires like Coccosteus and the estimates of Ferrón et al. (2017) result in Dunkleosteus having an extremely small head and hyper-elongate trunk relative to the known dimensions of the fossils.[3] If the reconstruction presented in Ferrón et al. (2017) is scaled to the known dimensions of CMNH 5768, it produces a length of Шаблон:Convert.[3]

Carr (2010) estimated a Шаблон:Convert long adult individual of Dunkleosteus terrelli to have weighed Шаблон:Convert, assuming a shark-like body plan and a similar length-weight relationship.[34] Engelman (2023), using an ellipsoid volumetric method, estimated weights of Шаблон:Convert for typical (Шаблон:Convert long) adult Dunkleosteus, and weights of Шаблон:Convert for the largest (Шаблон:Convert in this study) individual.[2] The higher weights by Engelman (2023) are mostly a result of the fact that arthrodires tend to have relatively deeper and wider bodies compared to sharks.[2]

An exceptionally preserved specimen of D. terrelli preserves a pectoral fin outline with ceratotrichia, implying that the fin morphology of placoderms was much more variable than previously thought, and was heavily influenced by locomotory requirements. This knowledge, coupled with the knowledge that fish morphology is more heavily influenced by feeding niche than phylogeny, allowed a 2017 study to infer the caudal fin shape of D. terrelli, reconstructing this fin with a strong ventral lobe, a high aspect ratio, narrow caudal peduncle, in contrast to previous reconstructions based on the anguilliform caudal fin of coccosteomorph placoderms.[11]

Length estimations of D. terrelli

Length estimates of Dunkleosteus terrelli (modified from Table 7 of Engelman 2023[2])
Study (author) Year Length Method Reference
Newberry 1875 Шаблон:Convert Extrapolated from Coccosteus cuspidatus, measurements and specimen used unclear [4]
Newberry 1889 Шаблон:Convert Unstated (implied extrapolation from Coccosteus) [35]
Dean 1895 Шаблон:Convert Methods, measurements, and specimens unstated [36]
Hussakof 1905 Шаблон:Convert (AMNH FF 195)
Шаблон:Convert (extrapolated to CMNH 5768 by Engelman 2023[2] assuming similar head-trunk proportions)		 Entering angle of body [37]
Anonymous 1923 Шаблон:Convert Methods, measurements, and specimens used not stated [38]
Hyde 1926 Шаблон:Convert Methods, measurements, and specimens used not stated [39]
Romer 1966 Шаблон:Convert Methods, measurements, and specimens used not stated [40]
Colbert 1969 Шаблон:Convert Methods, measurements, and specimens used not stated [41]
Denison 1978 Шаблон:Convert Methods, measurements, and specimens used not stated [17]
Williams 1992 Шаблон:Convert Methods, measurements, and specimens used not stated [42]
Janvier 2003 Шаблон:Convert Methods, measurements, and specimens used not stated [43]
Young 2003 Шаблон:Convert Methods, measurements, and specimens used not stated [44]
Anderson and Westneat 2007 Шаблон:Convert Methods, measurements, and specimens used not stated [31]
Anderson and Westneat 2009 Шаблон:Convert Methods, measurements, and specimens used not stated [32]
Carr 2010 Шаблон:Convert Methods, measurements, and specimens used not stated [34]
Long 2010 Шаблон:Convert Methods, measurements, and specimens used not stated [45]
Sallan and Galimberti 2015 Шаблон:Convert Methods, measurements, and specimens used not stated [46]
Ferrón et al. 2017 Шаблон:Convert (average adult, CMNH 5768)
Шаблон:Convert (largest individual, CMNH 5936)		 Upper jaw perimeter [11]
Long et al. 2019 Шаблон:Convert Methods, measurements, and specimens used not stated [47]
Johanson et al. 2019 Шаблон:Convert (CMNH 50322)
Шаблон:Convert (extrapolated to CMNH 5768 by Engelman 2023 assuming similar head-trunk proportions)		 Methods and measurements not stated [48]
Engelman 2023 Шаблон:Convert (average adult, CMNH 5768)
Шаблон:Convert (largest individual, CMNH 5936)		 Orbit-opercular length (head length minus snout) [2]
Engelman 2023 Шаблон:Convert (average adult, CMNH 5768) Skull length in Coccosteus [2]
Engelman 2023 Шаблон:Convert (average adult, CMNH 5768) Infragnathal length in Coccosteus (source considers this estimate unreliable due to Dunkleosteus having a relatively larger mouth than Coccosteus) [2]
Engelman 2023 Шаблон:Convert (average adult, CMNH 5768) Entering angle of body [2]
Engelman 2023 Шаблон:Convert (average adult, CMNH 5768) Length of posteroventrolateral plate [2]
Engelman 2023 Шаблон:Convert (average adult, CMNH 5768) Inferred location of pelvic girdle [2]

Paleobiology

Diet

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Partial lower jaw of CMNH 5936, the largest known individual of Dunkleosteus terrelli. Scale = 10 cm.

Dunkleosteus terrelli possessed a four-bar linkage mechanism for jaw opening that incorporated connections between the skull, the thoracic shield, the lower jaw and the jaw muscles joined by movable joints.[32][31] This mechanism allowed D. terrelli to both achieve a high speed of jaw opening, opening their jaws in 20 milliseconds and completing the whole process in 50–60 milliseconds (comparable to modern fishes that use suction feeding to assist in prey capture[31]) and producing high bite forces when closing the jaw, estimated at Шаблон:Convert at the tip and Шаблон:Convert at the blade edge,[31] or even up to Шаблон:Cvt and Шаблон:Cvt respectively.[32] The bite force is considered the highest of any living or fossil fish, and among the highest of any animal.[31] The pressures generated in those regions were high enough to puncture or cut through cuticle or dermal armor,[31] suggesting that D. terrelli was adapted to prey on free-swimming, armored prey such as ammonites and other placoderms.[32]

In addition, teeth of a chondrichthyan thought to belong to Orodus (Orodus spp.) were found in association with Dunkleosteus remains, suggesting that these were probably stomach contents regurgitated from the animal. Orodus is thought to be tachypelagic, or a fast-swimming pelagic fish. Thus, Dunkleosteus might have been fast enough to catch these fast organisms, and not a slow swimmer like originally thought.[11] Fossils of Dunkleosteus are frequently found with boluses of fish bones, semidigested and partially eaten remains of other fish.[49] As a result, the fossil record indicates it may have routinely regurgitated prey bones rather than digest them. Mature individuals probably inhabited deep sea locations, like other placoderms, living in shallow waters during adolescence.[50]

A specimen of Dunkleosteus (CMNH 5302), and Titanichthys (CMNH 9889), show damage said to be puncture damage from the bony fangs of other Dunkleosteus.[32]

Reproduction

Dunkleosteus, together with most other placoderms, may have also been among the first vertebrates to internalize egg fertilization, as seen in some modern sharks.[51] Some other placoderms have been found with evidence that they may have been viviparous, including what appears to have been an umbilical cord.[52]

Growth

Шаблон:Multiple image Morphological studies on the lower jaws of juveniles of D. terrelli reveal they were proportionally as robust as those of adults, indicating they already could produce high bite forces and likely were able to shear into resistant prey tissue similar to adults, albeit on a smaller scale. This pattern is in direct contrast to the condition common in tetrapods in which the jaws of juveniles are more gracile than in adults.[53]

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