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SUBMITTER: Szczygielski T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5608408 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Szczygielski Tomasz T Surmik Dawid D Kapuścińska Agnieszka A Rothschild Bruce M BM
PloS one 20170921 9
We report the first occurrence of congenital scoliosis in an early Permian aquatic parareptile, Stereosternum tumidum from Paraná state, Brazil. The spine malformation is caused by a congenital hemivertebra. These observations give insight into the biomechanical aspects of underwater locomotion in an axial skeleton-compromised aquatic amniote. This is the oldest record of a hemivertebra in an aquatic animal. ...[more]