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。     

黑龙江省桦南县道台桥组植物孢粉化石初步报道

黑龙江省桦南县道台桥组植物孢粉化石初步报道刘耕武,李浩敏,冷琴（中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所,南京２１０００８）关键词植物孢粉化石,道台桥组,黑龙江１９９４年６月至８月,笔者赴黑龙江禅南县八虎力乡四方台村进行了野外考察及化石采集工作,发现了大量植物...     

Longevity and growth rate estimates for a polar dinosaur: a Pachyrhinosaurus (Dinosauria: Neoceratopsia) specimen from the North Slope of Alaska showing a complete developmental record

Our knowledge of growth dynamics in large ceratopsian dinosaurs is very poor, in part, due to the paucity of quantifiable age markers such as growth lines in their bones. We sought marker-based, osteohistological evidence for ceratopsid age structure from high Arctic paleolatitudes based on the observations that: (1) extant mammals from high latitudes better express growth lines in their hard tissues than those from lower latitudes, and (2) the occurrence of accentuated growth banding in teeth from Arctic dinosaurs. We examined the long bones in the specimens of Pachyrhinosaurus sp. from the early Maastrichtian of northern Alaska, and found conspicuous osseous banding. Histological analysis of the spacing, structure, pattern and numbers of these bands in the femur of a very large specimen suggests that they are not a taphonomic artefact, rather they appear to reflect annual growth cycling. Counts and measurements of the growth zones suggest that the animal showed rapid linear growth early in ontogeny, sexual maturity in perhaps the 9th year of life, and that it died in the 19th year of life. Our data adds to a growing body of evidence that a genetically distinct northern dinosaurian fauna existed at high paleolatitudes in Alaska during the Late Cretaceous.     

THE ARAGONIAN VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF XIACAOWAN, JIANGSU——7. APLODONTIDAE (RODENTIA, MAMMALIA)

<正> The fossils which form the subject of the present study were collected in the recent years from the middle Miocene Xiacaowan Formation at three sites, Songlinzhuang, Shuanggou and Zhengji of Sihong, Jiangsu. Most of the material from the first two sites have been reported previously as Prosciurus sp. (Li et al., 1983). Further study indicates that all the specimens mentioned and the M_1/2 previously assigned to Prosciurus? shantungensis Rensberger et Li (1986) are quite different from those of Prosciurus, but represent a new genus, Ansomys. In some features, the new form resembles Plesispermorphilus? descedens of Europe. For the two taxa a new subfamily Ansomyinae is created. It is morphologically intermediate between Meniscomyinae and Allomyinae, and may be the sister taxon of the higher aplodontids Allomyinae and Aplodontinae.     

Upatoia barnardii gen. et sp. nov., an araucarian pollen cone with in situ pollen from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian) of Georgia,USA

Upatoia barnardii gen. et sp. nov., a conifer pollen cone from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian) Eutaw Formation of Upatoi Creek, Georgia, USA, is known from lignified and fusainised mesofossils that preserve its three-dimensional structure. The cone consists of numerous helically arranged microsporophylls, each composed of a thin stalk and distal lamina. Three elongate pollen sacs are attached to the base of the lamina. Pollen grains isolated from the pollen sacs are relatively large (52 – 75 μm), spheroidal to ellipsoidal in outline, lack sacci, and have a thickened equatorial exine that is often strongly folded. Pollen of Upatoia barnardii indicates a close relationship to extant Araucariaceae. Microsporophylls of U. barnardii confirm suggestions from previous studies of fossil material that some Mesozoic Araucariaceae had only three pollen sacs per microsporophyll, in contrast to extant species that often have more than ten pollen sacs per microsporophyll.     

准噶尔盆地北缘中中新世偶蹄类

本文记述了新疆准噶尔盆地北缘哈拉玛盖组中的偶蹄类七属七种(包括一个新种Eot-ragus halamagaiensis sp.nov.),奇蹄类三属三种。其中始羚在在国内尚属首次报道。该化石集群与内蒙东部的通古尔动物群比较两者成分相接近,但其中一些分子具有更原始的特征。显然哈拉玛盖组比通古尔组的沉积时期早,但仍属中中新世通古尔期。     

被子植物的花化石研究

五十多年前胡骕在研究山东临朐县山旺组的植物化石中,发现有花的化石,仅保存了5个花瓣或仅5个萼片,均难给予确切的分类位置;六十年代我们两次去山旺野外工作,发现为数较多,同样仅保存花瓣或萼片的化石。本文研究的是80年代发现并保存较为完好的花化石。新近李凤麟详细论述了各门类化石,均认为山旺组的地质时代属中中新世。近十余年来,国际上被子植物的花化石的研究进展较快。每次花化石的发现,对研究被子植物种系发生、系统位置及在地史中的演化及演变速率等均是极重要     

中国新近纪几种稀有啮齿动物

30多年来,中国新近纪堆积物中发现了大量的小哺乳动物化石,但一些种类的材料很少,而且仅在个别地点出现,在动物群中常以未定属、种记述.详细描述了4种罕见的啮齿动物,其中3种,泗洪豪鼠(Sayimys sihongensis)、亚洲别齿始鼠(Apeomys asiaticus)和新来鼠(未定种)(Neocometes sp.)发现于江苏泗洪早中新世下草湾组,一种,细小云南始鼠(Yuneomys pusillus)产自云南禄丰晚中新世石灰坝组.与欧亚或北美有关材料的比较研究表明,江苏泗洪标本无法归入相关属的任何已知种,因此被确定了两个新种(S.sihongensis和A.asiaticus);禄丰原归入Leptodontomys pusillus的标本与该属的特征不符,被指定为新属Ynueomys.泗洪的A.asiaticus和Neocometes sp.分别代表该属在亚洲和中国的首次记录;它们与S.sihongensis在亚洲远东地区的出现,增加了我们对这些稀有动物地理分布和欧亚古生物地理关系的知识.禄丰的新属Yuneomys与共生的Plesieomys和Heteroeomys属同为丘齿型始鼠类,可能都属热带或亚热带森林型动物;在禄丰动物群中缺少脊齿型始鼠类,与华北动物群的组成不同,似乎表明华南和华北始鼠动物群在中新世期间已有明显的分异,进而支持这一时期亚洲出现了不同生态区系的设想.     

山东山旺新发现的中新世松鼠类化石

<正>Three forms of Sciuridae, Tamiops asiaticus (Qiu, 1981) , Sciurus lii sp. nov. , and Oriensciums linquensis gen. et sp. nov. are described from the early-middle Miocene Shanwang Formation at Linqu, Shandong Province. Comparisons of Tamiops asiaticus with Meinia asiatica Qiu, 1981 suggest that neither the size nor the morphology of the bodies and dentition allows the two genera to be distinguished. The genus name Meinia Qiu, 1981 is therefore considered a junior synonym of Tamiops Allen, 1906. S. lii is one of the earliest records for the genus Sciurus . Some isolated teeth from the early Miocene locality Sihong, previously referred to Shuanggouia lui show similarities to S. lii and are assigned to the genus Sciurus in this paper. Redetermination of Shuanggouia argues convincingly for its assignment to Sciurinae rather than Petauristinae. Oriensciurus linquensis exhibits some characters similar to Sciurus in the upper cheek teeth, and to Spermophilinus in the lower ones. The overall dental features, however, group the new genus with tree squirrels. The Shanwang fossil sciurid association highly suggests the Shanwang area was a forest biotope during the Miocene, and indicates an obviously "Transitional Zone" between the modem Oriental Region and the Palearctic Region.     

Ecostratigraphy and sequence biostratigraphy,with a neritic foraminiferal example from the Miocene in Southern Australia

The Miocene oscillation is a second order interruption of Cainozoic cooling and falling sea level with a time of warming and relatively high sea level at its zenith, the Miocene climatic optimum. The second order trajectories in putative global sea level, in oceanic δ ¹⁸O (a proxy for climate change) and δ ¹³C (a proxy for major change in nutrient regime), are punctuated by third order changes, including the Mi glacials. Southern‐temperate foraminiferal assemblages provide a profile of neritic biofacies through the oscillation. Plankton and benthos fit the second order and third order scenarios well: there are numerous resonances from the global ocean in this regional neritic realm. The cycle TB2 is a biofacies entity as well as a physical entity, and so too are most of its third order components. The influence of the Monterey carbon excursion and the climatic optimum are visible in this biotic succession. We corroborate the prediction that a trophic resource continuum expands in a warming and transgressive trend and, at the same time, responding more strongly to environmental fluctuations. We cannot corroborate the notion of coherent biofacies recurring through the succession as the environment shifts from warming to upwelling and back. There is a strong sense of a community “evolving”; through time whilst spreading and adapting ad hoc to the shifts in physical environment, rather than of discrete communities tracking those shifts.     

内蒙古中新统通古尔组孢粉组合及其气候

通古尔组因盛产哺乳动物化石而闻名于世,其中的孢粉化石却很少有人问津,主要出于其岩性不利于孢粉处理之缘故。我所研究生周晓丹曾在1987年去通古尔采样,带回部分孢粉样品,经笔者分析后,发现了一定数量的孢粉。地层概况样品采自二连浩特市东南约80km 处的准乌古尔狼帐房剖面和都古月剖面。这里仅     

江苏泗洪下草湾中中新世脊椎动物群——3.两种肉食类化石:Semigenetta和Pseudaelurus

本文记述了下草湾组两件保存较好、意义较大的肉食类下颌.一件定为 Semigenetta huaiheensis sp. n..另一件定为 Pseudaelurus (Schizailurus) cf. lorteti.这是这两个属在我国的首次发现;在亚洲这也是第一次可靠的记录. Semigenetta 过去仅发现于欧洲.泗洪的标本比欧洲最原始的种,S. elegans 稍进步.Pseudaelurus 在欧洲发现较多,过去在北美、非洲和南亚也有过报道.后者的真正属性还不很清楚.泗洪的标本,从可以观察到的特征看,归入本属是毫无疑问的,在大小和一些形态特点上和欧洲的 Pseudaelurus (Schizailurus) lorteti 最为接近.这两件标本所代表的时代很可能相当于欧洲的 MN4 或 MN5.