- Project title
- evolution of burrowing in caecilians
- Description of the project
- Caecilians are an enigmatic group of amphibians that show adaptations to a burrowing life-style. Yet their evolutionary history remains poorly understood. Recent analyses have shown that vertebral shape is a good indicator for burrowing performance. This allows us to make inferences on fossil representatives using geometric morphometric approaches. Rubricaecilia monbaroni is an early diverging representative of the group that was limbed. Vertebrae are preserved in 3D allowing us to use GMM to better understand the ecology of these unusual and enigmatic limbed caecilians.
Works done by the platform AST-RX
