A new ground beetle (Carabidae, Protorabinae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China

Cretorabus rasnitsynisp. n., belonging to the extinct subfamily Protorabinae of Carabidae, was described based on a well-preserved specimen from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Yangshuwanzi, Inner Mongolia. The diagnostic characters forCretorabus are revised, and the key to species of the genus was presented. The fossil record of Protorabinae was summarized. Sinocarabus Hong, 1982 and Obesofemoria Hong, 1982 cannot be attributed to Protorabinae.     

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.     

内蒙古宁城中侏罗世九龙山组昆虫群落生态的初步研究

对内蒙古自治区宁城县山头乡中侏罗世九龙山组中昆虫群落进行了分析,共鉴别出3个昆虫群落：水生昆虫群落Mesobaetis sibirica-Yanliaocorixa chinensis,土壤昆虫群落Anthoscytina longa-Palaeointinodes haifanggouensis和森林草地昆虫群落Rhipidoblattina hebeiensis-Sinoprophalangopsis reticulata。根据定性和定量相结合的方法对各个昆虫群落的物种丰度,优势度和分异度等进行了分析。结果显示化石产地当时为近岸,浅水的湖泊环境,气候温暖,潮湿。     

宁夏,内蒙古的一些早白垩世珠蚌类

宁夏六盘山群上部和内蒙古赛汉塔拉组产出的珠蚌类化石为首次描述,其面貌与邻区相当地层产出的蚌类相似,前人将它们鉴定为Unio。现据它们的壳顶区缺双带构造、前假主齿乳头状并不呈“多”形排列和前闭壳肌痕内具树枝状构造等特征建立Ningxiaconcha gen. nov.。本文还对Pseudelliptio属及其模式种的含义作了补充修订;通过这些珠蚌类化石的对比,宁夏六盘山群和内蒙古赛汉塔拉组可与新疆吐谷鲁群中上部、辽西沙海组和阜新组、山东蒙阴群中上部、浙江寿昌组上段以及苏联、蒙古、德国韦尔登阶进行对比,其时代应归入早白垩世早期。     

内蒙古道虎沟中侏罗世假古蝉属化石(同翅目,古蝉科)

描述古蝉科化石3新种,即多点假古蝉Pseudocossus punctulosus sp.nov.,美丽假古蝉P.bellus sp.nov.,弯脉假古蝉P.ancylivenius sp.nov..所有标本均采自内蒙古宁城道虎沟中侏罗世九龙山组,其中2个新种保存有完整的臀区.模式标本保存在首都师范大学生命科学学院.     

内蒙古呼伦陶勒盖下白垩统巴音戈壁组的叶肢介化石

内蒙古西部银根-额济纳旗盆地巴格毛德呼伦陶勒盖地区下白垩统巴音戈壁组产有大量的叶肢介化石。该动物群含有河西走廊赤金堡组常见分子Diestheria jiayuguanensis和Yumenestheria delicatula,从而指示两组的对比关系。地质时代隶属于早白垩世九佛堂期。     

内蒙古宁城道虎沟地区中侏罗世非海相双壳类Ferganoconcha

Ferganoconcha是广泛分布于我国北部、中亚、西伯利亚和乌拉尔地区下、中侏罗统的一类非海相双壳类。Ferganoconchasibirica的产出表明道虎沟地区道虎沟层与辽西地区的海房沟组和冀北地区的九龙山组层位相当,时代介于早侏罗世晚期至中侏罗世之间。结合昆虫和叶肢介化石反映的时代,认为道虎沟层的时代可能为中侏罗世早中期。综合近年来在Ferganoconchidae的分类方面取得的进展,对F.sibirica进行了重新厘定。     

Eocene fossil rodent assemblages from the Erlian Basin (Inner Mongolia,China): Biochronological implications

Rodents from the Nuhetingboerhe-Huheboerhe area in the Erlian Basin, Inner Mongolia, differ stratigraphically: primitive ctenodactyloids such as Chenomys and Yuanomys are dominant in the upper part of the Nomogen Formation; Tamquammys dominates in the Arshanto Formation; Asiomys, Pappocricetodon, and Yuomys appear in the lower part of the Irdin Manha Formation and Tamquammys is rarer in this formation than in the Arshanto Formation. The assemblage of the upper part of the Nomogen Formation is similar to that of the Lingcha Formation of Hunan, the Wutu Formation of Shandong, the Yuhuangding Formation of Hubei, and the Bumban Member of the Nara-Bulak Formation of Mongolia. The assemblage in the upper part of the Arshanto Formation is correlated with that from the locality Andarak 2 in Kyrgyzstan. The assemblage from the lower part of the Irdin Manha Formation resembles that of the lower part of the Hetaoyuan Formation of Henan.On the basis of the comparison of the rodent assemblages, I consider that the age of upper part of the Nomogen Formation corresponds to the Bumbanian land mammal age. The Bumbanian, Arshantan, and Irdinmanhan land mammal ages are correlated respectively to the early Ypresian, the middle–late Ypresian, and the early Lutetian of the Geological Time Scale. The Bumbanian and Irdinmanhan land mammal ages are also correlated to the early Wasatchian and the early Uintan (or the later Bridgerian) of the North American Land Mammal Ages.     

A new middle Miocene pliopithecid from Inner Mongolia, China

In addition to the new fragments of the Omo I skeleton, renewed fieldwork in the Kibish Formation along the lower reaches of the Omo River in southwestern Ethiopia has yielded new hominin finds from the Kibish Formation. The new finds include four heavily mineralized specimens: a partial left tibia and a fragment of a distal fibular diaphysis from Awoke's Hominid Site (AHS), a parietal fragment, and a portion of a juvenile occipital bone. The AHS tibia and fibula derive from Member I and are contemporaneous with Omo I and II. The other specimens derive from Chad's Hominid Site (CHS), and derive from either Member III or IV, which constrains their age between approximately 8.6 and approximately 104ka.     

A new,well-preserved genus and species of fossil Glaphyridae (Coleoptera,Scarabaeoidea) from the Mesozoic Yixian Formation of Inner Mongolia,China

A new genus and species of fossil Glaphyridae, Cretohypna cristatagen. et sp. n., is described and illustrated from the Mesozoic Yixian Formation. This new genus is characterized by the large body; large and strong mandibles; short labrum; elytra without longitudinal carina; and male meso- and possible metatibia apically modified. A list of described fossil glaphyrids of the world is provided. This significant finding broadens the known diversity of Glaphyridae in the Mesozoic China.     

记内蒙古Juxia一新种

本文记述了在内蒙古沙拉木伦额尔登敖包地区第三系下渐新统乌兰戈楚组中发现的始巨犀的一个新种:寿氏始巨犀(Juxia shoui)。据其前臼齿及鼻切迹的位置等特点,这一新种当为始巨犀属中比较进步的一个成员,是包氏始巨犀和巨犀之间的过渡类型的犀类动物。     

记准噶尔巨犀(Dzungariotherium)一新种

本文记述了准噶尔巨犀(Dzungariotherium)的一个新种。标本为中苏古生物考察队1960年在内蒙古沙拉木伦地区额尔登敖包的早渐新世乌兰戈楚组内所采。由于这一新种的时代为早渐新世,因而有可能是发现于新疆的晚渐新世霍尔果断准噶尔巨犀(Dzungariotherium org-osensis)的祖先类型。     

海拉尔盆地南部早白垩世地层及其孢粉组合

本文对内蒙古海拉尔盆地南部探井地层中孢粉化石进行了系统研究,自下而上建立了9个孢粉化石组合。根据孢粉化石组合中Gicatricosisporites,Pilosisprites,Impardecispora,Aequitriradites等重要分子的地质时限特性,认为其时代应属早白垩世。这些孢粉化石资料对建立海拉尔盆地地层层序,进而指导盆地油气勘探具有十分重要的理论和现实意义。     

辽东苏子河盆地聂尔库组的真骨鱼化石兼论长头狼鳍鱼的系统位置

本文记述了辽东聂尔库组所产的骨舌鱼超目二新属——聂尔库鱼(Nieerkunia gen. nov.)、苏子鱼(Suziichthys gen. nov.)和狼鳍鱼科(Lycopteridae)属种未定的材料.文中将长头狼鳍鱼(Lycoptera longicephalus)订正为狼鳍鱼科—新属——辽西鱼(Liaoxiichthys gen. nov.),并认为聂尔库组的鱼群不同于九佛堂组的鱼群,时代属早白垩世.     

长鼻北碚鳄(Peipehsuchus teleorhinus)的补充修订

在四川达县一新材料的基础上,全面地记述了长鼻北碚鳄的头骨结构;补充和修订了该属的鉴订特征;将其从大头鳄科(Pholidosauridae)移入真蜥鳄科(Teleosauridae)。     

Tuberculate micro-ornament on the juvenile shell of Middle Jurassic ammonoids

In two genera of Callovian Ammonitina of distinct superfamilies, the juvenile shell displays a tuberculate micro-ornament in addition to growth lines. In contrast to the circular micro-tubercles of the ammonitella shell, post-embryonic tubercles are oval to longish in outline. They are arranged in rows running parallel to the growth lines in Kosmoceras (Spinikosmoceras) and cross the growth lines in Binatisphinctes.