Thoracic and abdominal outgrowths in early pterygotes: a clue to the common ancestor of winged insects?
Jakub Prokop, Kateřina Rosová, Angelika Leipner, Pavel Sroka · 2023
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Description
Jakub Prokop and co-authors describe in 2023 a fossil insect larva from the late Carboniferous, found at Piesberg in Germany. The larva bears fine side outgrowths on its body and tail that look like gills. Its wing pads share the same form and surface detail as those outgrowths.
That likeness supports an old idea about how insect wings began. The authors argue the paired outgrowths on both the chest and belly segments served as gills, letting the young insect breathe in water or damp air. Later, chest outgrowths could have grown into wing sheaths and then wings. Readers get fresh fossil proof in a long debate on the roots of flight in insects.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jakub Prokop, Kateřina Rosová, Angelika Leipner, Pavel Sroka |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |