黑龙江绥滨地区晚侏罗世Buchia带

绥滨地区晚侏罗世东荣组的双壳类Buchia,划分为4个带:(1)晚牛津至早启莫利期的B.concentrica带;(2)晚启莫利期的B.tenuistriata带;(3)早-中伏尔加期的B.mosquensis-B.rugosa带;及(4)晚伏尔加期的B.fischeriana带。文内共描述3属9种。     

黑龙江绥滨地区晚侏罗世Buchia带*

绥滨地区晚侏罗世东荣组的双壳类Buchia,划分为4个带:(1)晚牛津至早启莫利期的B.concentrica带;(2)晚启莫利期的B.tenuistriata带;(3)早-中伏尔加期的B.mosquensis-B.rugosa带;及(4)晚伏尔加期的B.fischeriana带。文内共描述3属9种。     

河南西峡盆地晚白垩世含恐龙蛋地层中的双壳类

描述河南西峡盆地含恐龙蛋地层的双壳类5属(亚属)9种,其中1新种。依据双壳类的地层分布特征,确认含恐龙蛋地层的时代属晚白垩世,很可能为晚白垩世中-晚期(Coniacian-Campanian期)。描述的双壳类化石有:Pseudohyria cf.gobiensis MacNeil,Pseudohyria cf.cardiiformis(Martinson),cf.Plicatounio(Plicatounio)hunanensis Zhang,cf.Plicatounio(Plicatounio)zhuchengensis Ma,Plicatounio(Acclinoplicatounio)cf.nan-anensis Ma et Huang,Plicatounio(Tamuraia)henanensis Chenet Wangsp.nov.,Sphaerium shantun gense(Grabau),Sphaeriumtani Grabau和Sphaerium laiyangense Chen。其中,Pseudohyria属及Tamuraia和Accli-noplicatounio亚属的历程均限于晚白垩世。韩国和日本早白垩世地层发现的Pseudohyria matsumotoi Yang,1979应归Matsumotoina,不属于Pseudohyria;福建禾口组上部原鉴定为Plicatounio(Plicatounio)naktongensis和Pli-catounio(Plicatounio)fujianensis的标本,应改归Tamuraia亚属。     

黑龙江省东部七虎林组中阿普第期的两属异齿类双壳类化石

在龙爪沟群七虎林组中识别出多个时代分布仅限于早白垩世晚期至晚白垩世早期的双壳类化石属 ,其中 ,VectianellaCasey和PseudaphrodinaCasey的时代分布仅限于早白垩世阿普第期 ,这两个属的发现对于七虎林组和龙爪沟群时代的确定有重要意义。文中系统描述这两属化石 。     

滇西南耿马弄巴剖面的晚古生代放射虫动物群

滇西南耿马弄巴剖面的硅质岩层中,存在大量放射虫化石,计有12属28种,时代跨越晚古生代,可建立两个组合和三个化石带:晚泥盆世Entactinia-Entactinosphaera组合;早石炭世杜内期中期Albaillellaparadoxa带,杜内期晚期—维宪期早期Albaillellaindensis带,维宪期中期Albaillellacartalla带;晚二叠世Entactiniaitsu-kaichiensis组合。弄巴剖面是由7个主要地层断片组成的断片型地层体,放射虫的研究为地层断片的时代归属问题提供了准确的微体古生物证据。     

华南东部晚三叠世和早侏罗世双壳类材料及其时代意义北大核心CSCD

华南东部地区晚三叠世—早侏罗世海陆交互相地层中的半咸水-海相双壳类,对于我国广泛分布的陆相上三叠统和下侏罗统的划分具有重要的意义。文中系统描述了该区晚三叠世和早侏罗世双壳类19属29种,其中Trigonucula sakawana Ichikawa,1949,Pteria sturi(Bittner,1895),Costigervillia minima Wen,1979和Cercomyapraecursor Quenstedt,1856为首次在这一区域报道;并根据新材料将前人报道的Isocardioides Fan,1962修订为Schafhaeutlia Cossmann,1897。综合这些材料和前人研究将该区小水组、三家冲组和金鸡组双壳类分别划为以下三个组合带,即Palaeopharus-Trigonucula组合带、Bakevelloides-Jiangxiella组合带和Parainoceramus-Ryderia guangdongensis组合带。文中通过对上述组合中代表属种在区域上的时代延限的分析,认为PalaeopharusTrigonucula带和Bakevelloides-Jiangxiella带的时代限于晚三叠世卡尼期(Carnian),可能延至诺利期(Norian)早期;Parainoceramus-Ryderia guangdongensis带的时代主要为早侏罗世辛涅缪尔期(Sinemurian),可能下延至赫塘期(Hettangian),上延至土阿辛期(Toarcian)。     

中国三叠纪海生爬行类综述

三叠纪海生爬行类化石广泛分布于中国南方的安徽、湖北、贵州、云南、广西和西藏。它们不仅包括有世界性分布的鱼龙类、鳍龙类、海龙类、原龙类等,而且还有仅出现于扬子海区的湖北鳄类。简单回顾了中国三叠纪海生爬行类的研究历史。根据化石的地史分布确认了自早三叠世晚期至晚三叠世早期的7个海生爬行类组合带。它们是奥伦尼克期的 Chaohu- saurus-Keichousaurus-Hupehsuchus 组合带,安尼期的 Chinchenia-Sanchiaosaurus 组合带和 Dino- cephalosaurus-Mixosaurus 组合带,拉丁期的 Dingxiaosaurus 带和 Keichousaurus-Nothosaurus 组合带,卡尼期的 Anshunsaurus-Qianichthyosaurus-Sinocyamodus 组合带和诺利期的 Himalayasaurus 带。对化石的古地理环境分析表明,中国早三叠世晚期的海生爬行类主要分布于扬子海区东部(安徽、湖北)的浅海开阔台地和局限海台地。中三叠世由于东部地区的抬升,鱼龙类和鳍龙类向西扩散,在扬子区西部(贵州、云南)辐射发展,在拉丁期达到个体数量和种类的高峰。晚三叠世卡尼期动物的数量依然很多,个体有增大的趋向,但高级分类阶元的数量减少,它们埋藏于海水相对较深的浊积岩相中。晚三叠世诺利期的化石发现于西藏的定日和聂拉木,这是中国惟一属于冈瓦那特提斯区的三叠纪海生爬行类组合带,仅含大型的鱼龙类。受动物的生存环境和埋藏条件的影响,中国三叠纪海生爬行类化石记录并不完整。目前尚有相当数量的化石未经研究,已记述的化石也需要在研究程度上进一步深化。     

广西东南部钦州地区早石炭世放射虫化石

广西钦州地区的板城石夹水库首次发现早石炭世杜内期和维宪期放射虫化石,计10属14种(亚种)和5未定种,其中有1新属(Guangxitrisphaera)和2新种(G.wanyaoensis和Pylentonemabanchensensis),它们分属于Albaillella paradoxa组合带和A.cartalla组合带。这些化石可以同西欧和北美两个同名化石组合带对比。     

泰国-老挝黎府构造带晚泥盆世-早石炭世放射虫动物群及其地质意义

本文对老挝西北部和泰国东北部黎府构造带6个层状硅质岩考察点进行了放射虫化石调查研究,其中有5个点发现可供鉴定的放射虫化石,共鉴定放射虫化石9属23种,包括典型的晚泥盆世放射虫化石Helenifore robustum和早石炭世放射虫化石Albaillella cartalla,Al.undula,Al.paradoxa等,5个层状硅质岩考察点地质时代类似,为晚泥盆世至早石炭世。该调查成果表明,黎府构造带从泰国东北部延续到了老挝西北部万荣地区,其深海盆地演化历史应该在早石炭世晚期结束。     

广东南雄盆地罗佛寨群的介形类动物群

作者依据坪岭、武台岗、罗佛寨、城南、枫门坳、修仁、黄茅坪、暖水塘等8条剖面725个样品的研究,系统描述了罗佛寨群的介形类化石21属78种,包括2个新种;建立了罗佛寨群介形类序列,自下而上划分出.Porpocypris globra,Porpocypris sphaeroidalis,Cypris concina,Sinocypris excelsa和Cyprois reniformis 5个介形类化石带.前两个带合称.Porpocypris动物群,时代属晚白垩最晚期.后三带称为Cypris-Sinocypris动物群,时代分别为早、中、晚古新世.     

鄂尔多斯盆地西南部甘肃西峰地区延长组孢粉组合及古气候研究

鄂尔多斯盆地西南部西峰油田中上三叠统延长组长8段和长7段钻井岩心中发现丰富的孢粉化石,分别命名为Aratisporites-Punctatisporites组合和Asseretospora-Walchiites组合,组合特征分别与盆地东南部发现的铜川组孢粉组合和延长组孢粉组合相似,地质时代分别为中三叠世晚期Ladinian期与晚三叠世早期Carnian期。通过孢粉植物群类型地层分布特征及其生态环境讨论,推测盆地区中晚三叠世气候温暖潮湿,雨量充沛,植被茂盛。孢粉植物群所反映的古气候为温带—亚热带暖湿或湿热气候。这是由于本地区当时处于较低的纬度,且濒临大型湖泊,而长8—长7段沉积时期正处于湖泊扩张的鼎盛期。     

Triassic temnospondyl biostratigraphy, biochronology and correlation of the German Buntsandstein and North American Moenkopi Formation

Based on temnospondyl distributions, we propose a correlation of the non-marine Lower and Middle Triassic strata of Germany and the western United States. This correlation relies principally on the presence of two genera, Nonesian (late Early Triassic) Parotosuchus and Perovkan (early Middle Triassic) Eocyclotosaurus . The distribution of Parotosuchus helgolandicus indicates that the Torrey Member of the Moenkopi Formation in Utah, USA is equivalent to the Volpriehausen Formation of the German Buntsandstein of Nonesian age. Magnetostratigraphy and the distribution of Eocyclotosaurus indicate that the Perovkan Holbrook Member of the Moenkopi Formation in Arizona corresponds to a short interval of Anisian time, as does the German Upper Buntsandstein. The Buntsandstein and Moenkopi biostratigraphic schemes agree with a recently proposed biochronology of Triassic terrestrial tetrapods.     

Oldest scleractinian coral reefs on the North American craton: Upper Triassic (Carnian), northeastern British Columbia,Canada

Bioclastic accumulations composed of crinoids, brachiopods, molluscs, spongiomorphs and scleractinian corals occur within Upper Triassic strata of the lower Baldonnel Formation at Pardonet Hill in northeastern British Columbia Canada. These small buildups (∼100 to 500 m³) have planar bases and broadly convex tops. These mounds are interpreted as small patch reefs composed of packstone, bioclastic floatstone/rudstone and carbonate breccia intercalated with mixed siliciclastic carbonate sediments deposited in a shallow subtidal setting (i.e. above fairweather wave base). Amalgamated hummocky cross-stratified to current ripple-laminated, quartz-dominated sandstone beds and numerous sharp-based, normally graded bioclastic (commonly encrinitic) packstone/grainstone — quartz–sandstone couplets characterize inter-reef lithologies.Conodont biostratigraphy indicates that the Pardonet Hill patch reefs occur within strata dated as earliest Upper Carnian (lower nodosus zone). The Pardonet Hill patch reefs originated and developed during an interval of regional sea level lowstand. Strata within which these patch reefs occur represent the westernmost migration of the Triassic shoreline in western Canada. Disappearance of coral reefs in the study area may have been affected by rapid marine transgression and failure of reef faunas to recolonize the new shore zone further to the east.The Pardonet Hill locality occurred on the western margin of the North American craton during the Triassic. Prior to their discovery reef-like structures dominated by corals in the western Panthalassa were limited to allochthonous terranes (now part of the Cordillera). The Pardonet Hill patch reefs occur at approximately 30° Triassic paleolatitude. In modern settings, this is at the extreme latitudinal margin of subtropical zooxanthellate reef development. The presence of benthic faunas characteristic of low-paleolatitude settings on the northwestern coast of Pangea has significant implications in paleotectonic and paleoenvironmental reconstructions.     

Refinements in the Upper Permian to Lower Jurassic stratigraphy of Karakorum, Pakistan

New sampling on critical intervals of the uppermost Permian and Triassic successions of the Northern Karakorum Terrain in the Karakorum Range (Pakistan) has refined the stratigraphy. Two types of successions may be distinguished in the Karakorum Range: a carbonate platform succession, spanning the whole interval from Upper Permian to Upper Triassic, possibly with several gaps; and a basinal succession, deposited from the Middle Permian to Early Carnian (Late Triassic), when the carbonate platform prograded into the basin. With the approaching and later docking of the Karakorum Block against the Asian margin closing the Paleo-Tethys, a portion of Karakorum emerged while another part subsided as a fore-deep, receiving clastics from the emerging Cimmerian Range. Molassic sediments filled the basin, whilst shallow-water carbonates transgressed over the emerged carbonate platform sometime between the latest Triassic and the Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic), with Cimmerian deformation occurring to the north. The age control is provided by conodonts, with assemblages of late Wuchiapingian, Changhsingian, Induan (Griesbachian and Dienerian), late Olenekian, early Anisian, late Ladinian, and early Carnian ages, respectively. Some information on the section around the P/T boundary is provided by palynology and isotopic C¹³ values. The dating of the Norian/Rhaetian platform is provided by foraminifers.     

伊朗新发现的中新世哺乳动物足迹的亲缘关系及其意义

伊朗晚中新世的几个地点新近发现了哺乳动物足迹化石。足迹化石在伊朗中北部分布在一套被称为上红组的厚层、混杂的泻湖-陆相地层序列的数个层位中;在伊朗北部的里海地区南部,则位于一套陆相沉积序列中。产自上红组的足迹以偶蹄动物类型为主,由于个体很小,可归入几种像羚羊一样大小的种;其他足迹则分别归入小型、中型和大型的鼬科和猫科食肉动物。产自伊朗北部的足迹化石主要为长鼻类,有些可能是犀牛,少数为偶蹄类足迹。根据上红组中发现的猫科动物(剑齿虎)足迹,可认为产足迹的地层年代为晚中新世,而产于伊朗北部古地中海边缘区沉积中的长鼻类足迹显示,地层的最大年龄为中新世最早期。这些足迹化石的发现填补了这一重要地区新近纪哺乳动物化石记录的空白。     

Palynological characterisation of the Lower Carnian of the KEA5 borehole (Koudiat El Halfa Dome; Central Atlas, Tunisia)

In Central Tunisia, the Triassic outcrops of the Koudiat El Halfa and Rheouis Domes are mainly composed of an evaporite-dominated succession. The scarce biostratigraphic data available to date assign a Ladinian-Carnian age for the outcropping strata. The present palynological study data demonstrate an Early Carnian (Julian) age for the Triassic sediments penetrated by the KEA5 borehole in the Koudiat El Halfa Dome, which were previously considered to represent Middle Triassic. The palynological record mainly consists of Enzonalasporites vigens, Patinasporites densus, Vallasporites ignacii, Brodispora striata, Samaropollenites speciosus, Ovalipollis pseudoalatus in association with Circumpolles species such as Praecirculina granifer, Camerosporites secatus and Duplicisporites granulatus. In addition, Lagenella martini and Aulisporites astigmosus occur in the upper part of the drilled succession and their first appearance could indicate a Julian-Early Tuvalian age. These new data allow a palynostratigraphic correlation with the Rheouis Formation cropping out along the structural “North-South Axis” of Central Tunisia, particularly in the Jebel Rheouis Dome. The drilled succession can be correlated with the Black Dolostones (Tr3) and the Middle Gypsum (Tr4) members of the Rheouis Formation.     

Facies and biota of Anisian to Carnian carbonate platforms in the Northern Calcareous Alps (Tyrol and Bavaria)

Summary During the Middle and early Late Triassic carbonate ramps and rimmed platforms developed at the northwestern margin of the Tethys ocean. In the Northern Calcareous Alps, Anisian stacked homoclinal ramps evolved through a transitional stage with distally steepened ramps to huge rimmed platforms of Late Ladinian to Early Carnian age. Middle Triassic to early Late Triassic facies and biota of basin, slope and platform depositional systems are described. Special emphasis is given to foraminifers, sponges, microproblematic organisms and algae. The Ladinian to early Carnian reef associations are characterized by the abundance of segmented sponges, microproblematica, biogenic crusts and synsedimentary cements. Among the foraminifers, recifal forms likeHydrania dulloi andCucurbita infundibuliformis (Carnian in age) are reported from the Northern Calcareous Alps for the first time. Some sphinctozoid sponges likeParavesicocaulis concentricus were known until now only from the Hungarian and Russian Triassic.     

Pseudoplanktonic lifestyle of the Triassic crinoid Traumatocrinus from Southwest China

Colonies of Traumatocrinus (Echinodermata, Crinoidea) attached to driftwood from the lower Upper Triassic (Carnian) Xiaowa Formation of the Guanling area (Guizhou, Southwest China) document a pseudoplanktonic lifestyle for this specialized offshoot of the otherwise benthic Middle Triassic Encrinidae. After the end-Carnian decline of Traumatocrinus, its ecological niche was subsumed in Norian by genera derived from another benthic family (Holocrinidae) with convergent morphological modifications. After the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic), this niche disappeared, possibly due to the emergence of wood-boring bivalves.     

Evidence for Prosauropod Dinosaur Gastroliths in the Bull Run Formation (Upper Triassic,Norian) of Virginia

Definitive criteria for distinguishing gastroliths from sedimentary clasts are lacking for many depositional settings, and many reported occurrences of gastroliths either cannot be verified or have been refuted. We discuss four occurrences of gastrolith-like stones (category 6 exoliths) not found within skeletal remains from the Upper Triassic Bull Run Formation of northern Virginia, USA. Despite their lack of obvious skeletal association, the most parsimonious explanation for several characteristics of these stones is their prolonged residence in the gastric mills of large animals. These characteristics include 1) typical gastrolith microscopic surface texture, 2) evidence of pervasive surface wear on many of these stones that has secondarily removed variable amounts of thick weathering rinds typically found on these stones, and 3) a width/length-ratio modal peak for these stones that is more strongly developed than in any population of fluvial or fanglomerate stones of any age found in this region. When taken together, these properties of the stones can be explained most parsimoniously by animal ingestion and gastric-mill abrasion. The size of these stones indicates the animals that swallowed them were large, and the best candidate is a prosauropod dinosaur, possibly an ancestor of the Early Jurassic gastrolith-producing prosauropod Massospondylus or Ammosaurus.

Skeletal evidence for Upper Triassic prosauropods is lacking in the Newark Supergroup basins; footprints (Agrestipus hottoni and Eubrontes isp.) from the Bull Run Formation in the Culpeper basin previously ascribed to prosauropods are now known to be underprints (Brachychirotherium parvum) of an aetosaur and underprints (Kayentapus minor) of a ceratosaur. The absence of prosauropod skeletal remains or footprints in all but the uppermost (upper Rhaetian) Triassic rocks of the Newark Supergroup is puzzling because prosauropod remains are abundant elsewhere in the world in Upper Triassic (Carnian, Norian, and lower Rhaetian) continental strata. The apparent scarcity of prosauropods in Upper Triassic strata of the Newark Supergroup is interpreted as an artifact of ecological partitioning, created by the habitat range and dietary preferences of phytosaurs and by the preservational biases at that time within the lithofacies of the Newark Supergroup basins.