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Charbonnier S, Vogt G, Forel MB, Hieu N, Devillez J, Laville T, Poulet-Crovisier N, King A, Briggs DEG. The La Voulte-sur-Rhône Konservat-Lagerstätte reveals the male and female internal anatomy of the Middle Jurassic clawed lobster Eryma ventrosum. Sci Rep 2024; 14:17744. [PMID: 39085260 PMCID: PMC11291483 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-67357-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2024] [Accepted: 07/10/2024] [Indexed: 08/02/2024] Open
Abstract
The biology of extinct animals is usually reconstructed from external morphological characters and comparison with present-day analogues. Internal soft organs are very rarely preserved in fossils and require high-tech approaches for visualization. Here, we report the internal anatomy of a female and male of the ~ 162 Myr-old lobster Eryma ventrosum from the Jurassic La Voulte-sur-Rhône Konservat-Lagerstätte in France using X-ray synchrotron tomography. The Erymidae is an extinct, species-rich, widespread and ecologically important Mesozoic family of decapod crustaceans. Our investigation revealed the anatomy of the locomotory, respiratory, circulatory, excretory, digestive, nervous and sensory, and reproductive systems at a resolution resembling low-magnification histology. Particularly notable is the detailed preservation of the small brain and the fragile hepatopancreas, the main metabolic organ of decapods that decays rapidly post-mortem. The remarkable preservation shows that the internal anatomy of Eryma ventrosum is closer to that of Nephropidae (clawed lobsters) than Astacidae (freshwater crayfish), their closest living relatives based on skeletal morphology. The microanatomy of the gonads and hepatopancreas indicates that the two specimens investigated were a young, well-nourished female and male prior to sexual maturity. The analysis of the soft anatomy reveals remarkable conservatism over 160 Myr and offers new insights into feeding, reproduction, life history and lifestyle of an important component of the macrozoobenthos of Middle Jurassic seas.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sylvain Charbonnier
- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS UMR 7207, Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie-Paris, CR2P, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.
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- Faculty of Biosciences, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS UMR 7207, Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie-Paris, CR2P, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS UMR 7207, Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie-Paris, CR2P, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS UMR 7207, Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie-Paris, CR2P, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS UMR 7207, Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie-Paris, CR2P, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS UMR 7207, Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie-Paris, CR2P, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Synchrotron Soleil, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, France
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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Jauvion C, Audo D, Bernard S, Vannier J, Daley AC, Charbonnier S. A new polychelidan lobster preserved with its eggs in a 165 Ma nodule. Sci Rep 2020; 10:3574. [PMID: 32107415 PMCID: PMC7046737 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-60282-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2020] [Accepted: 02/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Crustacean eggs are rare in the fossil record. Here we report the exquisite preservation of a fossil polychelidan embedded within an unbroken nodule from the Middle Jurassic La Voulte-sur-Rhône Lagerstätte (France) and found with hundreds of eggs attached to the pleon. This specimen belongs to a new species, Palaeopolycheles nantosueltae sp. nov. and offers unique clues to discuss the evolution of brooding behaviour in polychelidan lobsters. In contrast to their development, which now relies on a long-lived planktic larval stage that probably did not exist in the early evolutionary steps of the group, the brood size of polychelidan lobsters seems to have remained unchanged and comparatively small since the Jurassic. This finding is at odds with reproductive strategies in other lobster groups, in which a long-lived planktic larval stage is associated with a large brood size.
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- Clément Jauvion
- Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Université, CNRS UMR 7207, CR2P, Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie - Paris, 8 rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France. .,Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Université, CNRS UMR 7590, IRD, Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie, IMPMC, Paris, France.
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory for Palaeobiology, Yunnan University, Kunming, China.,MEC International Joint Laboratory for Palaeobiology and Palaeoenvironment, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
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- Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Université, CNRS UMR 7590, IRD, Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie, IMPMC, Paris, France
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- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, ENS de Lyon, CNRS, UMR 5276 LGL-TPE, 2, rue Raphaël Dubois, 69622, Villeurbanne Cedex, France
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- Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, Géopolis, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Université, CNRS UMR 7207, CR2P, Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie - Paris, 8 rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France
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