云南东部中三叠世始鳍龙类—新属种(英文)

根据一保存完整的骨骼(包括头骨、下颌和全部头后骨骼)建立了鳍龙类的一新属新种——利齿滇东龙(Diandongosaurus acutidentatus gen.et sp.nov.)。标本采自云南省罗平县中三叠世安尼期关岭组上段。新属种既具有肿肋龙类(包括Dactylosaurus,Anarosaurus,Serpianosaurus和Neusticosaurus)吻部两侧不收缩、眶前区域长于眶后区域、眼眶大于上颞孔等典型特征,同时又具有幻龙类(包括Simosaurus和nothosaurians)前颌和下颌前部犬齿型齿发育、上颌具1或2个犬齿型齿等典型特征。新种的额骨和顶骨均愈合,额骨两后外侧支的末端后延超过上颞孔前缘,轭骨和鳞骨相交将眶后骨排除于下颞孔之外,方轭骨发育,锁骨前外侧缘具一突起,3对荐肋以及最前部尾肋的外侧端均未见明显收缩。这些特征也多表现出肿肋龙类和幻龙类的混合特征。此外,新种还具有一些较为独特的特征,包括前额骨和后额骨沿眼眶背缘相交,第3至第8对尾肋的长度超过荐肋,后肢末端发育异常膨大的爪趾骨。系统关系分析表明,滇东龙既不是肿肋龙类也不是幻龙类;它可能与由乌蒙龙、幻龙类和传统的肿肋龙类所构成的分支亲缘关系最近,为始鳍龙类基干类群。     

纤细滇美龙(Dianmeisaurus gracilis Shang & Li,2015)新材料

根据一件产自云南罗平中三叠世关岭组Ⅱ段的新标本并结合产自相同地点和地层中的模式标本对纤细滇美龙(Dianmeisaurus gracilis Shang & Li,2015)进行了详细研究.原模式标本暴露其腹而,而新标本暴露其背面,两者互相补充提供了更完整、精确的纤细滇美龙解剖学信息.新材料揭示该种具有非常短小的吻部,眶前区的长度不仅短于眶后区长度,甚至短于眼眶的长度;外鼻孔小且位置靠前,即鼻孔前区的长度短于鼻孔后缘与眼眶前缘之间的距离;由两额骨构成的眼眶间隔非常狭窄,宽度小于顶骨平台宽度的1/3;额骨前后两端均具渐尖的突起;顶骨后部不收缩,顶骨平台后缘呈深V型.补充了新信息和包含更多属种(如Dawazisaurus)后的系统发育学分析支持了之前滇美龙和滇东龙互为姊妹群的结论,同时它们和马家山龙、滇肿龙、贵州龙和大洼子龙一起构成了一个仅由中国的属种组成的单系类群.与欧洲肿肋龙类群(Dactylosaurus,Anarosaurus,Serpianosaurus和Neusticosaurus)相比,这一单系类群与幻龙类有更近的亲缘关系.     

The oldest ionoscopiform from China sheds new light on the early evolution of halecomorph fishes

The Halecomorphi are a major subdivision of the ray-finned fishes. Although living halecomorphs are represented solely by the freshwater bowfin, Amia calva, this clade has a rich fossil history, and the resolution of interrelationships among extinct members is central to the problem of understanding the origin of the Teleostei, the largest clade of extant vertebrates. The Ionoscopiformes are extinct marine halecomorphs that were inferred to have originated in the Late Jurassic of Europe, and subsequently dispersed to the Early Cretaceous of the New World. Here, we report the discovery of a new ionoscopiform, Robustichthys luopingensis gen. et sp. nov., based on eight well-preserved specimens from the Anisian (242–247 Ma), Middle Triassic marine deposits of Luoping, eastern Yunnan Province, China. The new species documents the oldest known ionoscopiform, extending the stratigraphic range of this group by approximately 90 Ma, and the geographical distribution of this group into the Middle Triassic of South China, a part of eastern Palaeotethys Ocean. These new data provide a minimum estimate for the split of Ionoscopiformes from its sister clade Amiiformes and shed new light on the origin of ionoscopiform fishes.     

云南罗平中三叠世意外裸鱼的再研究

意外裸鱼(Gymnoichthys inopinatus)于2010年由Tintori等首次记述并归入基干新鳍鱼类。依据在云南省曲靖地区罗平县大凹子村中三叠世关岭组二段发现的新材料,对意外裸鱼进行了补充描述,并重新讨论了其系统发育关系。在意外裸鱼的新标本上,可见其续骨前端很可能与关节骨相关节,并有确切无疑的单一辅上颌骨,表明意外裸鱼应为鲱亚部(Halecomorphi)鱼类。此外,意外裸鱼的体表无鳞、椎体未骨化、髓棘和髓弓的结构和排列方式以及牙齿和尾脉棘的形状都与金尾鱼超科鱼类(caturoids)一致。系统发育分析结果表明意外裸鱼属于金尾鱼超科的基干类群。之前金尾鱼类主要见于欧洲和北美的侏罗系,现在公认的金尾鱼超科鱼类主要包括Liodesmidae中的Liodesmus属和金尾鱼科(Caturidae)中的Caturus和Amblysemius两属。意外裸鱼的发现不仅使金尾鱼类的出现提前了40Ma,而且填补了我国相关材料的空缺。     

我国北方石炭-二叠系牙形刺序列再认识

文中根据当前比较统一的牙形刺分带原则,对我国北方石炭二叠系的牙形刺序列进行了研究和重新定义。我国北方地区石炭二叠系的牙形刺带或组合带由上而下可综合如下：Sweetognathus whitei,S.inornatus,Streptognathodus barskovi,S.isolatus,S.elegantulus-S.oppletus,Idiognathodus magnificus-Neognathodus roundyi,Idiognathodus delicatus-Neognathodus bothrops,Idiognathoides corrugatus-I.sinuatus,Declinognathodus noduliferus,Gnathodus bilineatus bollandensis和Gnathodus bilineatus bilineatus带或组合带。本文同时介绍了牙形刺带和组合带在我国北方的分布、时代及其对比。     

东北那达哈达岭硅质岩中的三叠纪牙形刺

本文首次描述了采自黑龙江那达哈达岭硅质岩中的三叠纪牙形刺Ｎｅｏｓｐａｔｈｏｄｕｓｃｆ．ｄｉｅｎｅｒｙ,Ｎ．ｋｏｃｋｅｌｉ,Ｎｅｏｇｏｎｄｏｌｅｌｌａｍｏｍｂｅｒｇｅｎｓｉｓ,Ｃａｒｉｎｅｌｌａｍｕｎｇｏｅｎｓｉｓ,Ｍｅｔａｐｏｌｙｇｎａｔｈｕｓｃｆ．ｐａｒｖｕｓ,从而确定了硅质岩的地质时代。     

A BASAL MIXOSAURID ICHTHYOSAUR FROM THE MIDDLE TRIASSIC OF CHINA

Abstract:  New specimens of a mixosaurid ichthyosaur are described from the People's Republic of China. They consist of an almost complete skull, forefin and shoulder girdle of a single individual, and a second partial skull from the Anisian Guanling Formation of Guizhou Province that belongs to the same taxon. A phylogenetic analysis shows this species to be the sister-taxon of all other mixosaurids. It is distinguished from Mixosaurus , Contecotpalatus and Phalarodon by features of its dentition and cranial morphology. There is only one maxillary tooth row. The posterior maxillary teeth are blunt and rounded, and much wider than the premaxillary teeth, but they are not strongly elongated anteroposteriorly. The teeth are subthecodontously implanted. The postorbital skull segment is long. The jugal-quadratojugal notch is deep and these two elements remain separated externally. The postorbital separates supratemporal and postfrontal. There are no postaxial ossifications of the forefin. Autapomorphies include a long ventral process of the postorbital lamina of the postorbital as well as characteristic morphologies of the coracoid and humerus. The material is therefore clearly distinguished from other known mixosaurids. It can be referred, on the basis of the features of the humerus and coracoid, to Mixosaurus maotaiensis Young, 1965. As it is generically distinct from Mixosaurus , a new generic name, Barracudasaurus gen. nov. is proposed. The phylogenetic relevance of the external separation of jugal and quadratojugal in some Triassic ichthyosaurs is discussed and it is concluded that it does not demonstrate the initial presence of a lower temporal fenestra in ichthyosaurs. The new material suggests that mixosaurids could have also originated in the Eastern rather than the Western Tethys, as previously assumed.     

中国西南志留纪的豆海百合类

描述了豆海百合类２属７种,它们是：Ｐｉｓｏｃｒｉｎｕｓ（Ｐ．）ｐｉｌｕｌａ,Ｐ．（Ｇ．）ｋｏｓｏｖｅｎｓｉｓ,Ｐ．（Ｇ．）ｂｏｈｅｍｉｃｕｓ,Ｐａｍｐｉｓｏｃｒｉｎｕｓｏｌｌｕｌａ,Ｐ．Ｓｐｈｅｒｉｃｕｓ,以及Ｐｉｓｏｃｒｉｎｕｓ（Ｇ．）ｂｒｅｖｉｓｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．和Ｐａｒａｐｉｓｏｃｒｉｎｕｓｐａｔｅｒｉｆｏｒｍｉｓｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．;并首次发现了Ｐ．（Ｇ．）ｂｏｈｅｍｉｃｕｓ萼杯内腔的内部钙质骨胳构造。同时,还就波希米亚豆海百合种内变异和豆海百合类的对称性进行了研究。     

我国西南小奥德蘑属的分类

在研究了我国西南地区(滇、黔、川、藏)小奥德蘑属Oudemansiella的标本后,作者认为Pegler et Young(1986)所提出的本属的分类系统较为合理。本文报道该属10种4变种,其中3新种、1新变种和1新组合。新分类群是云南小奥德蘑Oudemansiella yunnanensisZ.L.Yang et Zang、粘小奥德蘑假根变种Oudemansiella mucida(Schrad:Fr.)v.Hoehn.vat.pseudorhiza z.L.Yang et Zang、膜被小奥德蘑Oudemansiella velata z.L.Yang etZang、杏仁形小奥德蘑Oudemansiella amygdaliformis Z.L.Yang et Zang;新组合是长根小奥德蘑双孢变种Oudemansiella radicata(Relh.:Fr.)Singer vat.bispora(Redhead,Ginns et Shoemaker)Z.L.Yang et Zang。新分类群有拉丁文及汉文描述,并有附图。全部标本存中国科学院昆明植物研究所隐花植物标本馆(HKAS)。我国西南小奥德蘑属的种类相当丰富,约占世界已知种的1/3,除产于南美的刺孢组Sect.Dactylosporina外,其余各组在本区均有代表。区系组成主要以北温带成分为主,也有个别泛热带成分,而云南小奥德蘑、膜被小奥德蘑等可能是在喜马拉雅隆起、横断山脉形成和云贵高原抬升过程中逐步演化出来的特殊而年青的种类。     

The Setting and Marking of Microbiology Examinations

A rapid, simple method for testing and improving a student's ability to detect and correct misuse of scientific English is described. Performance in such Precision Tests was positively correlated with performance in conventional examinations, and use of these tests in the manner described was followed by an improvement in examination performance. The data discussed in this paper concern the use of Precision Tests in the teaching of biochemistry, but the tests may also prove useful in other biological disciplines.     

New Phoenicopsis leaves (Czekanowskiales) from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou Biota,China and their roles in phytogeographic and paleoclimatic reconstruction

The Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation, distributed in the Daohugou area, Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia, China, is famous for yielding abundant, well-preserved fossil vertebrates and invertebrates. However, only a few fossil plants have been reported to date. In this paper, one new species of Czekanowskiales, Phoenicopsis (Windwardia) daohugouensis n. sp. is described based upon leaf morphology and epidermal characters. The new species represents the first record of Czekanowskiales from the Daohugou Biota. The discovery of the new species reveals the significance of the Daohugou flora as one of the deciduous forests in the temperate-warm temperate zone of Eurasia during the Middle Jurassic.     

The Luoping biota: exceptional preservation, and new evidence on the Triassic recovery from end-Permian mass extinction

The timing and nature of biotic recovery from the devastating end-Permian mass extinction (252 Ma) are much debated. New studies in South China suggest that complex marine ecosystems did not become re-established until the middle–late Anisian (Middle Triassic), much later than had been proposed by some. The recently discovered exceptionally preserved Luoping biota from the Anisian Stage of the Middle Triassic, Yunnan Province and southwest China shows this final stage of community assembly on the continental shelf. The fossil assemblage is a mixture of marine animals, including abundant lightly sclerotized arthropods, associated with fishes, marine reptiles, bivalves, gastropods, belemnoids, ammonoids, echinoderms, brachiopods, conodonts and foraminifers, as well as plants and rare arthropods from nearby land. In some ways, the Luoping biota rebuilt the framework of the pre-extinction latest Permian marine ecosystem, but it differed too in profound ways. New trophic levels were introduced, most notably among top predators in the form of the diverse marine reptiles that had no evident analogues in the Late Permian. The Luoping biota is one of the most diverse Triassic marine fossil Lagerstätten in the world, providing a new and early window on recovery and radiation of Triassic marine ecosystems some 10 Myr after the end-Permian mass extinction.     

贵州罗甸边阳镇关刀剖面三叠纪牙形石序列及阶的划分

关刀剖面可初步划分15个牙形石带和动物群,自下而上为:Hindeodus parvus- H. anterodentatus组合带,Neospathodus dieneri延限带,Ns. pakistanensis间隔带( ?) ,Ns. waageni- Parachirognathus动物群,Ns.crassatus延限带,Ns.symmetricus- Ns .homeri间隔带,Chiosellati morensis延限带,Nicoraella germanicus- Nic .kockeli间隔带,Paragondolella bulgarica延限带,Neogondolella constricta间隔带,Ng. constricta cornuda间隔带,Budurovignathus truempyi延限带,Bv. hungaricus间隔带,Bv. mungoensis间隔带,Metapolygnathus polyg-nathiformis动物群。根据牙形石对比划分了阶。安尼阶(或青岩阶)底界年龄可能为247 Ma。     

Early Triassic bivalves from the Feixianguan Formation in Xingyi,Guizhou and the Ximatang Formation in Qiubei,Yunnan (southern China)

Based on newly collected materials from the Lower Triassic Feixianguan Formation of Xiongwu section in Xingyi, Guizhou and the Ximatang Formation of Ximatang section in Qiubei, Yunnan, southern China, nine species belonging to seven genera are described. Two bivalve assemblages are recognized and regionally correlated in South China. The bivalve assemblage from the Feixianguan Formation of Xiongwu exhibits a higher diversity including seven species belonging to seven genera: Claraia griesbachi, Leptochondria virgalensis, Entolium (Entolium) microtis, Towapteria scythicum, Bakevillia exporrecta, Bositra sp., and Unionites? fassaensis. In contrast, the bivalve assemblage from the Ximatang Formation of Ximatang has a much lower diversity, consisting of only two species, i.e., Claraia griesbachi and Claraia radialis. Additionally, C. griesbachi and C. radialis, as the most common species of Claraia in the Early Triassic, are revised.