内蒙古阿左旗乌兰塔塔尔地区渐新世地层剖面及动物群初步观察

内蒙古阿左旗乌兰塔塔尔地区的渐新世地层中,哺乳动物化石丰富,种类繁多。本文是这个动物群研究的初步报道,除对动物群中各成员和地层概况做了简单介绍外,还对化石层的时代作了初步探讨。     

蒙古新发现的渐新世山河狸和松鼠类化石(英文)

蒙古中部地区的三达河组(HsandaGolFormation)是亚洲渐新世陆相地层的经典地层之一。三达河组的沉积岩层现被分成两个岩性段:上部早渐新世晚期-?晚渐新世山地段(ShandMember)和下部早渐新世早期塔塔尔段(TatalMember);两岩段间有时夹有KharKhoroo玄武岩层(BryantandMcKenna,1995;MengandMcKenna,1998)。该玄武岩层的时代用40Ar/39Ar法被确定为距今31.5Ma(Hcketal.,1999,他们称其为BasaltI)。三达河组中产有丰富的哺乳动物化石,特别是啮齿类化石(MatthewandGranger,1923;Kowalski,1974;RussellandZhai,1987;Hcketal.,1999)。近年来,本文的后一作者在三达河组中又采集到一批啮齿类化石,其中包括松鼠和山河狸2科的化石。本文是对这两类化石新材料的记述。现生的松鼠科分异很大,而且大多数都分布在亚洲。然而,松鼠科化石在古近纪时在北美和欧洲却很丰富。在北美出现于晚始新世,在渐新世时已明显分异;在欧洲出现于早渐新世,在中新世时分异很大。相反,亚洲古近纪的松鼠化石却发现得很少,标本也很破碎。已报道的只有3件标本。2件产自党河下游地区:Bohlin(1946)报道的晚渐新世的Sciurussp.,标本只是2枚单个臼齿(M3和m2);王伴月、邱占祥(2004)报道的早渐新世的党河鲜松鼠(Oligosciurusdangheensis),标本只是一段带m1～2的下颌骨。还有一件是Minjin(2004)报道的蒙古渐新世的三达河克热姆鼠(Kheremhsandgoliensis),标本也只是一段带m1～3的下颌骨。本文报道的松鼠化石产自蒙古国的巴彦洪戈尔省的塔石盖贝(TashgainBel)地点的三达河组上部山地段,时代为早渐新世晚期-?晚渐新世。这批松鼠化石标本包括1件具P3～M3的上颌骨(PC369)和2段下颌骨(PC3610和PC3611)。这是亚洲古近纪目前已知的最好的一批松鼠化石标本,代表松鼠科Kherem属的一新种:亚洲克热姆鼠(Kheremasiaticasp.nov.)。其主要特征是颊齿较大,较宽;下内尖的高度和下次尖的大小从m1到m3变化不大,彼此相近;下内脊较明显;下内尖较明显,与下后边脊间有浅沟分开等。K.asiatica的形态特征表明,Kherem属应归入北美的Cedromurinae亚科。新的发现表明,亚洲渐新世的松鼠已发生了分异,至少可分为3支。以Kherem为代表的一支,与北美早期的cedromurines有较近的系统关系。它可能是由类似于北美Oligospermophilus的种类演化并迁徙到亚洲来的。现生的山河狸只有一种(Aplodontiarufa),仅生活在北美西部沿海地区。但从始新世到中新世,山河狸却遍布全北区。它们在北美较繁盛,分异大,但在亚洲发现得很少。在亚洲渐新世地层中虽曾报道过3属4种山河狸化石,但材料都很少(Prosciurusordosicus和P.?shantungensis均只有一枚单个的牙)。山河狸化石在蒙古渐新世地层的新发现表明,亚洲渐新世的山河狸化石比已知的要丰富。本文描述的山河狸化石分别采自蒙古南戈壁省Shunkt地点的山地段和前杭爱省UlaanKhongil(=TatalGol)地点的塔塔尔段。它们代表原松鼠属的3类:蒙古原松鼠(新种)(Prosciurusmongoliensissp.nov.)、蒙古原松鼠(相似种)(P.cf.P.mongoliensis)和小原松鼠(新种)(P.pisinnussp.nov.)。蒙古原松鼠的主要特征是下颊齿的下中附尖与下后附尖脊连,下中尖发育较弱,下外中脊弱或无;p4无下前边尖和下前齿带;m1具从下外脊伸向下次脊的小刺;m2和m3的下后脊II较发育;下次脊在p4和m1后弯,与下后边脊连,在m2和m3横向,伸达下外脊等。蒙古原松鼠(相似种)与蒙古原松鼠的区别是:颊齿尺寸较小,p4具明显的下外中脊,p4和m1的下次脊弯曲度较缓,m1缺从下外脊伸向下次脊的小刺,m2～3的下后脊II较短等。小原松鼠的主要特征是:个体较小;齿冠较低;下臼齿的下中附尖孤立;下颊齿的下次脊横向、较低,与下外脊连,下中尖和下外中脊均较明显,下次尖明显向前颊侧延伸,具明显的齿带等。蒙古渐新世啮齿类化石的新发现表明,亚洲渐新世的松鼠和山河狸与北美的关系要比与欧洲的近。     

内蒙古乌兰塔塔尔地区中渐新世的圆柱齿鼠科啮齿类

本文记述了发现在乌兰塔塔尔地区的中渐新世圆柱齿鼠科化石。根据牙齿特征,将乌兰塔塔尔动物群中原先的阿尔丁鼠(Ardynomys)和圆柱鼠(Cyclomylus)分别放到异鼠(Anomoemys)和察干鼠(Tsaganomys)属中,将原“小圆柱鼠”(Cyclomylus minutus Kowalski,1974)改订为小察干鼠(Tsaganomys minutus)。在记述洛异鼠(Anomoernys lohiculus)、阿尔泰察干鼠(Tsaganomys altaicus)和小察干鼠的同时,讨论了它们的种内变异。此外还对察干鼠和圆柱鼠的齿冠和齿根关系问题做了初步探讨。     

内蒙千里山地区中、上渐新统的发现及其意义

在这篇文章中,根据所发现的脊椎动物化石和岩性,将内蒙伊克昭盟千里山地区陆相第三纪地层分为四部分。并建立了两个组:上部上渐新统伊克布拉格组和中部中渐新统乌兰布拉格组。后者被分为上、下两段。在亚洲,一直未能发现完整的,具有丰富脊椎动物化石的中、晚渐新世地层的剖面。千里山地区渐新统连续剖面的发现,对亚洲中、晚渐新世地层的层序的建立和对比提供了可靠的依据。     

DISCOVERY OF CRICETIDS (RODENTIA, MAMMALIA) FROM MIDDLE OLIGOCENE OF NEI MONGOL, CHINA

<正> The Cricetidae, a group of small rodents presently extremely flourishing all over the world, were already widely distributed in Holarctic in Oligocene. Although abundant Oligocene cricetids have been found in North America and Europe, their occurrence in Asia has been restricted so far mainly to the Hsanda Gol Formation. In China no middle Oligocene cricetids had been encountered until 1977 and 1978, when the author succeeded in finding some cricetids from Saint Jacques, Nei Mongol, China. Those cricetid are described in this paper.     

内蒙古阿拉善左旗克克阿木中渐新世早期哺乳动物化石的发现

本文简要报道了在内蒙古阿左旗克克阿木地点发现的哺乳动物化石,计4目10科11属12种.动物群的时代可能为中渐新世早期.     

关于乌兰塔塔尔动物群的时代

根据近年来国际上海相第三纪地层及所含生物研究的进展、海陆相地层对比的精确、划分方案的变化,蒙古三达河组的地质时代应为早渐新世,而不是原来认为的中渐新世。中国乌兰诺塔尔动物群中已研究过的21属哺乳动物化石,有17属与三达河动物群共有,占马兰塔塔尔动物群总数的81％;33个种中与后者相同或相似的有14个,占43％。这种相似性表明乌兰塔塔尔动物群的时代也应为早渐新世,而不是原来认为的中渐新世。     

内蒙古乌兰塔塔尔地区中渐新世几种肉食动物

这篇短文记述了乌兰塔塔尔地区中渐新世的两种肉齿类和四种食肉类化石,其中有两种在我国为首次报道。     

Ulaancricetodon badamae n. gen., n. sp. (Mammalia, Rodentia, Cricetidae) from the Valley of Lakes in Central Mongolia

The smallest and most primitive Oligocene cricetid,Ulaancricetodon badamae n. gen., n. sp. is described from the Hsanda Gol Formation in Mongolia. The fossils were recovered from stratified fossil horizons immediately below and above a basalt layer dated at 31.5 Ma (⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar-data), that is an Early Oligocene age. Although the dental formula is muroid (1-0-0-3/1-0-0-3), the tooth morphology and tooth size ofUlaancricetodon badamae n. gen., n. sp. point to a close relationship with the zapodidHeosminthus Wang 1985, which is known from the Asian Late Eocene to Early Oligocene.     

THE ORIGIN OF AFRO-ARABIAN 'DIDELPHIMORPH' MARSUPIALS

Abstract:  New specimens of Peratherium africanum from Early Oligocene deposits of the Fayum, Egypt, provide key information on the relationships of the species. These include the first maxilla to be found and two additional dentaries. The maxilla can be demonstrated to belong to the same species as the holotype dentary by study of the occlusal relationships of upper and lower molars. It can be shown by several synapomorphies that P. africanum is the sister species to European Bartonian–Rupelian Peratherium lavergnense . P. africanum therefore belongs to the 'didelphimorph' family Herpetotheriidae, not to the peradectimorph family Peradectidae. The genus Qatranitherium , previously erected for this species alone, is here synonymized with Peratherium . Comparison with 'didelphimorphian' taxa from early Paleogene deposits of South America suggests more remote relationships, indicating an origin for P. africanum by dispersal from Europe as originally envisaged. The more precise relationships deduced here help to constrain the time interval for dispersal to Afro-Arabia, probably during the earliest Oligocene sea-level low.     

蒙古中部湖泊之谷沉积岩-玄武岩共存的渐新世地层:蒙古-奥地利合作项目回顾(英文)

Taatsiin Gol和Taatsiin Tsagaan Nuur地区的渐新世沉积序列具有重要的地层学意义:这里出露的三达河组和Loh组沉积含有多个化石层和玄武岩夹层。在蒙古-奥地利合作项目中,从研究区域的33个剖面/化石地点的85个化石层中采集了289种化石(11种腹足类、2种两栖类、9种爬行类和267种哺乳类)。本文提供了所有地点的完整哺乳动物清单,并结合大、小哺乳动物的新资料,对蒙古非正式的生物带A,B,C和C1进行了更新。40Ar/39Ar测年给出了至少两组玄武岩年龄:早渐新世玄武岩I组大约31.5Ma,晚渐新世玄武岩II组大约28Ma。它们可以用作渐新世哺乳动物地层学的年代校正点。从早渐新世至晚渐新世,哺乳动物群发生了显著的变化,包括晚渐新世种数的明显减少。这种趋势在肉齿类、食肉类和反刍类中最为突出。     

渤海湾盆地南堡凹陷始新世—渐新世孢粉、藻类与地层对比

南堡凹陷是位于渤海湾盆地黄骅坳陷北部的小型构造单元。为深入研究南堡凹陷古近纪孢粉组合,采集了Gp1和Np288等七口钻井样品。经传统酸、碱处理法获得孢粉化石,并在研究区古近系地层中划分出六个孢粉亚组合:沙三段4亚段的Ephedripites-Taxodiaceaepollenites-Ulmoideipites tricostatus-Pterisisporites属于始新世鲁特期、沙三段1—3亚段的Quercoidites microhenrici-Ulmipollenites minor属于始新世中晚期、沙二段的Ephedripites-Rutaceoipollis-Meliaceoidites与沙一段的Quercoidites-Meliaceoidites属于渐新世早期、东二段与东三段的Ulmipollenites undulosus-Piceaepollenites-Tsugaepollenites与东一段的Juglandaceae-Celtispollenites属于渐新世中晚期。研究区古近纪孢粉组合与黄骅坳陷中北区及滩海地区的孢粉组合可以形成良好对比,并且研究区局部出现的沙三段4、5亚段与渤海湾盆地普遍出现的沙河街组四段上部为同一时期的产物。     

A New Marine Reptile (Sauropterygia) from New Zealand: Further Evidence for A Late Cretaceous Austral Radiation of Cryptoclidid Plesiosaurs

Kaiwhekea katiki gen. et sp. nov. represents the first described cryptoclidid plesiosaurian from New Zealand. It is one of the largest cryptoclidids known, at a length of over 6.5 m, and represents the third reported genus of austral Late Cretaceous cryptoclidids. Kaiwhekea katiki is from siltstones of the Katiki Formation, upper Haumurian Stage (Cenomanian–Maastrichtian; c. 69–70 Ma) of coastal Otago, South Island, New Zealand. In the Late Cretaceous, the locality lay close to the polar circle. The holotype and only known specimen is an articulated skeleton with skull, preserved mostly as natural molds, but which lacks the forelimbs and pectoral girdle. The skull is relatively large and possesses several distinct characters, including a substantial, deep, jugal. There are about 43 upper and 42 lower teeth in each jaw quadrant; all are homodont, slim, and slightly recurved, lacking prominent ornament. Kaiwhekea probably took single soft-bodied prey. Based on cranial structure, it clearly belongs with the Cryptoclididae, but is not certainly close to the southern Late Cretaceous cryptoclidids Morturneria (Seymour Island, Antarctica) and Aristonectes (Chile, Argentina).     

Oligocene vertebrate assemblages in central Kazakhstan: Faunas,biogeography and paleoecology

The history of research in Oligocene paleozoology of Central Kazakhstan is described. Continental Oligocene strata may be recognized on the basis of different Oligocene fossil vertebrates, taking into account the stratigraphic occurrence of mammal genera and species, their belonging to subdivisions of the General Stratigraphic Scale as well as statistical determination of assemblage formation time. At least two stratigraphic levels occur in this region. These are: Saryin (Myneskesuyek, Mogila Saty localities), the lower part of Chelkarnura (Shintuzsay) Svitas (upper half of the Lower Oligocene—Upper Oligocene); and the upper part of Chelkarnura (Chelkar‐Teniz) and Betpakdala (Kyzyl‐Kak) Svitas (Upper Oligocene). Apparently the Chelkar‐Teniz vertebrate assemblage originated in several stages. They require future studies of stratigraphic position of fossils.

Origin and ways of migration of mammalian genera from the Oligocene faunistic assemblages of Central Kazakhstan are discussed.

A preliminary paleoecological study suggests that animals of open and rarefied landscapes dominated in the Myneskesuyek region, the faunistic assemblage of which appears to have been the most ancient. Vertebrate inhabitants of partly open and open, as well as forest habitats probably were present in Chelkar‐Teniz. Animals primarily of forest and scattered woodland dwellers predominated in the Kyzyl‐Kak locality.     

塔里木盆地吐克尔明剖面第三系苏维依组的介形类和轮藻化石

报道产自新疆天山南麓轮台县吐克尔明地区第三系苏维依组的５属１０种介形类化石和２属５种轮藻化石,并讲座其地质时代和上、下第三系的界线。     

云南路南中始新世雷兽化石

雷兽是一类生活在古近纪始新世的奇蹄类哺乳动物,化石主要发现在古北区的亚洲和北美。我国雷兽化石丰富,尤以在内蒙古地区发现居多。1943年Granger和Qegory根据在内蒙古找到的数量可观的完好材料(包括37个头骨和70件下颌骨在内的141件标本),对我国的雷兽化石做了较为全面和系统的整理和研究,划分出3个亚科、14个属和     

Stratigraphy and microfacies of the oligocene sequence at Gabal Bu Husah, Marada Oasis, South Sirte Basin, Libya

Summary Stratigraphic and microfacies investigations carried out on the Oligocene sequence exposed at Gabal Bu Husah, northwest of Marada Oasis, south of the Sirte Basin, Libya, showed that the Oligocene sequence conformably overlies the Late Eocene Thamat Formation and unconformably underlies the Early to Middle Miocene Marada Formation (Qarat Jahannam Member). The lithostratigraphic studies of the Oligocene sequence revealed the presence of two rock units, from base to top: 1- Umm Ad Dahiy Formation (Early Oligocene, Rupelian) and 2- Bu Hashish Formation (Late Oligocene, Chattian). The Oligocene sequence yields a rich foraminiferal assemblage with fifty-one benthonic and large formaminiferal species. The foraminiferal analysis allowed to subdivide the sequence into three local foraminiferal assemblage zones, arranged stratigraphically from base to top: 1)Elphidium minutum zone comprising the Umm Ad Dahiy Formation. 2)Miogypsinoides complanatus/Nonion granosus assemblage zone covering the lower two thirds of the Bu Hashish Formation. 3) Zone with abundantNummulites spp., including the upper part of the Bu Hashish Formation. The paleoenvironmental significance of the recorded species is described and discussed. The microfacies studies led to the recognition of eleven microfacies types. These microfacies indicate that the lower part of the Umm Ad Dahiy Formation was deposited in a shallow warm marine environment, but the conditions changed to fluviomarine in the uppermost part. The Bu Hashish Formation was deposited in a shallow-marine, inner-shelf environment (as indicated by the operculinid limestone) but a probable hiatus in its middle part is indicated by the presence of a nummulitic coquina and gypsum beds formed in a lagoonal environment. After returning to a shallow marine environment at the end of Oligocene the marine sedimentation ended.     

Oligocene sivaladapid primate from the Bugti Hills (Balochistan, Pakistan) bridges the gap between Eocene and Miocene adapiform communities in Southern Asia

A new species of Guangxilemur (Sivaladapidae, Adapiformes) is described from the early Oligocene Chitarwata Formation (Bugti Member) of the Bugti Hills, Sulaiman geological Province, Balochistan, Pakistan. Guangxilemur singsilai n. sp. provides further diagnostic morphological characters from its newly described upper and lower dentitions, confirming its intermediate phylogenetic position between Eocene and Miocene Asian sivaladapid adapiforms. G. singsilai possesses moderately developed shearing and puncturing molar features and maintains lingual cusps on upper molars as in Eocene hoanghoniines; in contrast, it possesses a typical molariform P(4) as in Miocene sivaladapines. The important paleogeographic changes that have affected South Asia during the Tertiary (related to the collision between the Indian and Eurasian Plates) have played a critical role in reforming circulation and climatic differentiation. The presence in Pakistan of an unique and well-diversified Oligocene primate fauna, clearly demonstrates that South Asia maintained favourable environmental conditions during the middle Caenozoic global climatic deterioration that coincides with drastic changes in faunal structure on the whole Holarctic Province, including the extinction of adapiform primates.     

德国Palatinat北部爱森贝格盆地早第三纪孢粉组合时代的确定

艾森贝格盆地（Eisenberg Basin)位于梅因茨盆地（Mainz Basin)西南部,为莱茵地堑的一部分,因为化石稀少,这里的地层和梅因茨盆地典型的第三纪地层很难对比,因此,它们的地质时代长期处于争论中。对于Lautersheim 1钻孔及Lautersheim附近地层露头的孢粉地层学研究表明,这一地区的第三纪可以三分,Lautersheim 1钻孔的下部属于中始新统,相当于Krutzsch的SPP 15／16带,该钻吉中部的一部分可置入早渐新世,相当于SPP19带;这部分可以再分为上下两部分;下部含大量始新世微体植物化石,而上部此类化石很少,上部属于下渐新统,与含孢粉的Sandpit “Friedlich”可以对比。Lautersheim 1钻孔最上部属于晚渐新世（早Chattian),与“过滤层”顶部及“淡水层”底部可以对比,其所含的孢粉和Marxheim组合可以比较,相当于SPP 20F／G带。     

内蒙古阿左旗乌兰塔塔尔中渐新世的兔科化石

本文记述了内蒙古阿左旗乌兰塔塔尔中渐新世地层中发现的兔形类材料中的一种兔科化石——德氏鄂尔多斯兔 [Ordolagus teilhardi (Burke), 1941]. 在形态上对该属种做了较多的补充和订正,并对其系统关系进行了初步探讨.