内蒙古发现白垩纪大型拟苏铁科(本内苏铁目)茎干化石

内蒙古包头达尔罕茂明安联合旗发现了保存完整的白垩纪大型本内苏铁目拟苏铁科拟苏铁属(Cycadeoidea)茎干化石。茎干化石呈椭球形,保存完好,高56cm,最大直径48cm,化石表面密布的菱形叶柄基呈螺旋状排列,从基部至顶端叶柄基逐渐变小,球果不均匀散生于叶柄基之间。茎干化石从内到外包括中央的髓部、外围的木质部圆筒、叶柄基、球果等。这是国内首次发现保存比较完整的本内苏铁目拟苏铁科茎干化石。同时,在茎干化石产地附近还发现有裸子植物宽孔异木(Xenoxylon latiporosum(Cramer)Gothan)木化石。本内苏铁茎干及宽孔异木化石对于研究本内苏铁目的演化历史和当时的植物群组成特点具有重要的科学意义。     

中国首次发现白垩纪桫椤科茎干化石

松辽盆地是我国白垩系分布最广、厚度最大、发育最全的陆相沉积盆地。孢粉分析发现桫椤孢在松辽盆地白垩系中比较常见。但由于桫椤孢与桫椤科或者蚌壳蕨科具有亲缘关系。桫椤孢在地层中的发现不能明确表明桫椤科植物的存在。这种状况影响了我们对松辽盆地古环境和古气候的精确分析。白垩纪桫椤科矿化茎干化石在黑龙江省齐齐哈尔市克山县的发现为解决桫椤科植物在松辽盆地存在与否的难题提供了重要证据。该化石为桫椤科树蕨植物的茎干片段,包括髓、网状中柱、皮层。分体中柱的横截面呈U、W或S形,外围具有厚壁组织鞘,分体中柱末端朝向髓部或者皮层。髓和皮层由薄壁组织组成,其中分布有许多维管束和根。创伤组织在髓中常见。当前化石是我国第一个桫椤科茎干化石记录。它的发现表明白垩纪时期松辽盆地北部曾经分布着现今多生长于热带、亚热带的桫椤科树蕨祖先类群。结合与其伴生的一些登普斯基树蕨、本内苏铁茎干等化石证据,可能指示当时气候为热带或者亚热带。     

中国中生代木化石研究新进展:多样性变化及古气候波动

作为植物化石的重要组成部分,木化石不仅在探究地质历史时期植物群的组成特征和植物界演化方面发挥着重要作用,而且也是反映陆地生态系统古气候变化和古生态环境重建的重要证据之一。中国中生代木化石不仅数量丰富,而且类型多样,研究成果丰硕。近年来,在四川、重庆、云南、辽西和新疆等三叠纪—白垩纪化石产地和层位陆续发现了一批木化石新材料,进一步丰富了我们对中国中生代木化石的多样性的认识,并在利用木化石揭示三叠纪至白垩纪陆相古气候特征和变化方面取得积极进展。文中重点介绍在四川盆地晚三叠世、辽西侏罗纪燕辽生物群及早白垩世热河生物群中的木化石新发现并分析其古气候指示意义,揭示上述化石所反映的气候降温事件、古气候波动及其与带毛恐龙出现的关系等。通过对中生代木化石多样性演化、时空分布模式以及木材生长轮解剖特征的研究和分析揭示侏罗纪和白垩纪的古气候整体特征,并对中国中生代木化石研究领域存在的问题和未来的研究方向提出展望。     

赣江断裂带中生代的演化及其地球动力学背景

赣江断裂带是江西省境内醒目的北北东向平移断裂构造带,由一系列北北东向、北东向和北西向断裂束组成,表现为一个大规模的左行走滑脆性剪切带并兼具伸展断陷和右旋走滑的成份。赣江断裂带在重力、航磁异常呈现为显著的梯度带,是一条晚中生代的岩浆岩带,控制了以鄱阳盆地为代表的一系列白垩纪-古近纪沉积盆地的形成与发育。该带在中生代的演化可分为早-中侏罗世压扭、晚侏罗早-白垩世左行平移和晚白垩世上盘斜落的右行平移3个阶段。在侏罗纪以来太平洋板块对欧亚大陆斜向俯冲的大背景下,赣江断裂带的形成和演化与华南广为发育的燕山期陆内造山作用密切相关,北北东向断裂的发育则直接受郯庐断裂早白垩世左行走滑活动控制,因而表现出“北强南弱”和“北早南晚”的特点。白垩纪时赣江断裂的活动方式与郯庐断裂一致,可认为是后者的南延。     

北京西山中侏罗世植物群的古气候意义

在北京市门头沟区九龙山南坡中侏罗统的下窑坡组、上窑坡组和龙门组采集植物化石22属38种。统计资料表明,北京西山中侏罗世植物群以真蕨纲(27.6%)、苏铁纲(25%)和银杏纲(25%)为主,其中真蕨纲的Coniopteris、Cladophlebis分别出现5和17个形态种。本文通过现生近缘种类分析法和植物的生长状态分析研究古气候。研究表明,含量高的植物化石的现生近缘种类紫萁科、蚌壳蕨科和苏铁纲植物主要生长于温热潮湿的热带或亚热带气候区;Cladophlebis较高的分异度,苏铁纲大型的羽状复叶,木贼目宽大的茎干等植物特征,同样指示较为湿热的气候环境。因此,北京西山中侏罗世植物群反映一种温热潮湿的亚热带气候。并且,化石的属种和数量自下窑坡组、上窑坡组到龙门组的降低反映研究区气候由温热潮湿向干热方向的演变。     

中国南部二迭系菊石层

引言中生代的三迭纪至白垩纪的划分都是以菊石做为主要依据,已早为地质学工作者所熟知的事实。晚古生代的地层依靠菊石划分的时间较晚,在近三十年来有许多古生物学家试图用菊石做为划分和对比地层的依据,划分成为若干化石带,并已取得良好的成果。二迭纪是菊石目在古生代发育的一个最高阶段,由于它的种属繁多,演化迅速,分布广泛,     

开鲁盆地钱家店凹陷早白垩世义县组孢粉组合及其古气候演变

研究白垩纪植物演替与气候变化对认识现今生态环境形成过程与演变具有重要意义。开鲁盆地义县组孢粉学的研究不仅丰富了该地区早白垩世孢粉学资料,也为该地区早白垩世地层划分与对比提供了依据。通过对开鲁盆地东北部钱家店凹陷钻孔QIV-65-136底部泥岩样品分析,获得了丰富的孢粉化石,并建立了Cyathidites-Pinuspollenites-Protoconiferus组合。根据典型分子时代分布、重要种属含量上的变化及横向组合对比,确定其地质时代为早白垩世早期,层位相当于义县组。孢粉植物群反映的植被景观为在湖盆的周围山地生长着松科高大乔木,伴有罗汉松科、杉科及少量苏铁科、南美杉科、掌鳞杉科等植物,林下、湖岸地区生长着桫椤科、紫萁科及莎草蕨科等蕨类植物。整体面貌以针叶植物为主,所处的气候环境为湿润的暖温带-亚热带。     

济阳坳陷老斜452井介形类化石及其地层意义

在对济阳坳陷老斜452井的古生物分析中,发现穴状女星介(相似种)Cypridea(Cypridea)cf.cavernosa、蒙阴女星介C.(C.)mengyinensis等介形类化石,说明该地区发育了白垩纪地层。济阳坳陷中生代地层的细分主要是依据区域岩性、电性及孢粉化石等地质资料,但白垩系的岩性、电性与上下地层相似,且化石稀少,缺乏充足的古生物资料,因此难以系统、准确地划分。老斜452井发现介形类化石给济阳坳陷白垩系的细分提供了重要的古生物学依据,为该区的深入研究提供了翔实的基础资料。     

冀北滦平盆地大北沟组叶肢介生物地层特征 与大北沟阶单位层型的建立

滦平县火斗山乡张家沟榆树下村大北沟组（1棚剖面地层连续,顶底清楚,化石丰富,以沉积岩为主夹少量火山岩,可分为3个岩性段。1段含孢粉化石;2至3段化石极为丰富,有叶肢介、昆虫、介形类、双壳、腹足类、鲎虫、鱼、植物等化石。其中叶肢介化石自大北沟组近底部一直分布于顶部,可见至少25个化石层．计5科9属36种,统属于尼斯托叶肢介群（Nestoria Fauna）。自下而上又可进一步划分为3个叶肢介化石带。以最底部化石带中Mstoriapissovi,Jibeilimnadia ovata的首现为标志,即为大北沟阶的开始,榆树下剖面可作为大北沟阶理想的单位层型剖面。根据化石组合、地层层序、区域地层对比及同位素年代资料,大北沟阶的时代应为晚侏罗世,可能更近于晚侏罗世晚期。文中描述了一些叶肢介属种。     

中国东北地区早白垩世无尾两栖类化石一新属

描述了发现于中国东北地区中生代地层中的蛙类化石一新属、新种,即莫旗蒙蟾(新属、新种)Mengbatrachus moqi gen. et sp. nov.。化石产于内蒙古自治区最东部与黑龙江省相邻的莫旗。该类化石的的主要特征如下:头宽大于头长,上颌骨和前颌骨具有密集排列的牙齿;两鼻骨在中线相接;副蝶骨长条状;翼骨较大,鳞骨、上肩胛骨发育,乌喙骨近端膨大显著;荐前椎8个,脊椎横突发育;第Ⅱ—Ⅳ荐前椎具有短粗肋骨;肋骨单头,近端膨大;荐椎横突呈近似棒状,远端仅稍加宽;尾杆骨上有一对椎后横突;胫跗骨和腓跗骨仅在近端和远端愈合。这是除辽蟾外,在中国发现的另一新的中生代无尾两栖类化石。     

Two new species of Mesozoic tree ferns (Osmundaceae: Osmundacaulis) in Eurasia as evidence of long-term geographic isolation

The fossil trunks and rhizomes of Osmundaceae provide important information about its evolutionary history. Due to limited records of the Mesozoic trunks and rhizomes in the Eurasia of the Northern Hemisphere, our understanding on the fossil diversity of the Osmundaceae is hindered. Two new species of the Osmundaceae trunks, Osmundacaulis asiatica sp. nov. and Osmundacaulis sinica sp. nov. representing the first discovery of the Mesozoic tree fern genus Osmundacaulis in Eurasia, are described from Wudalianchi and Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province, Northeast China, which enriches the plant diversity of the Osmundaceae in the Eurasia, and provides vital evidence for studying the distribution, radiation and evolution of the genus during the Cretaceous. The fossil records suggest that Osmundacaulis species may have evolved from a common ancestor, which first appeared in the Australian portion of Pangaea, and then spread to ancient northern North America and ancient East Asia. Since then, they developed into different species through their own evolutionary lines. The Chinese species have a special local feature that the outer cortex is thicker than the inner cortex, in contrast with reported Osmundacaulis species having thinner outer cortex and thicker inner cortex. Long-term geographic isolation may have led to the radiation of diverse Osmundacaulis species and the appearance of region-specific features, such as the thick outer cortex and the thin inner cortex of the Chinese species. Among all reported Osmundacaulis species, the two new species found in China, O. nerii from the Jurassic of Australia and the O. lemonii from the Jurassic of the USA, have special groups of mucilage-sacs inside sclerenchyma ring of petiole base. Mucilage sacs probably originated independently among taxonomic groups, representing convergent adaptations to similar habitats, rather than indicating genetic inheritance from a common ancestor.     

A new tree fern stem,Tempskya zhangii sp. nov. (Tempskyaceae) from the Cretaceous of Northeast China

A new Cretaceous tree fern species from the family Tempskyaceae, Tempskya zhangii sp. nov., from Keshan County, Heilongjiang Province, Northeast China, is described based on silicified fragments. The species is characterized by dichotomizing stems embedded in a matrix of adventitious roots, together forming a solid and compact false trunk. The dorsiventral stems are composed of solenosteles, and their internodes are short with 2–3 (rarely 4) leaf traces. A three-layered cortex includes a sclerenchymatous outer zone, parenchymatous middle zone, and an inner zone composed of sclerenchyma band and parenchyma cells. The pith consists of a parenchymatous outer zone and sclerenchymatous inner zone. The petiole has a single C- or U-shaped vascular strand. The adventitious root has diarch xylem surrounded by an inner sclerenchymatous and an outer parenchymatous cortex. In possessing these characters, T. zhangii is more similar to T. wyomingensis from the Cretaceous of North America than to other species of Tempskya. However, the Chinese species distinctly differs from T. wyomingensis in having a sclerenchymatous outer cortex, parenchymatous middle cortex, and sparse parenchyma in the xylem. It is the first record of Tempskya from China and the fourth from Asia. This species, together with Cyatheaceae, Osmundaceae, Cycadeoidaceae, and conifers found in the same region constituted the plant community at the time.     

Solenites (Czekanowskiales) from the Late Mesozoic Jehol Biota of Southeastern Jilin, China and its Paleoclimatic Implications

Situated at the easternmost area of the Late Mesozoic Jehol Biota, China, abundant fossils, including invertebrates, vertebrates and plants, were collected from the Early Cretaceous Yingzuilazi Formation of the Baishan Basin, southeastern Jilin. The faunal remains from this formation distinctly belong to the Early Cretaceous Lycoptera–Ephemeropsis–Eosestheria assemblage of the Jehol Biota. Based on the gross leaf morphology and epidermal structures, two new species and one indeterminate species of genus Solenites(Czekanowskiales), S. baishanensis sp. nov., S. gracilis sp. nov. and S. sp. are described in this paper. This is the first fossil plant of Czekanowskiales reported from this new fossil locality of the easternmost area of the Late Mesozoic Jehol Biota, China. The new discovery contributes to improve our knowledge for understanding of leaf morphology, epidermal characters and diversity of this genus during the Early Cretaceous time, and extends geologic and geographic distribution of Solenites in northern China and Eurasia. Along with consideration of associated plant and faunal assemblages and sedimentology, we suggest that the regional climate was warm and moderately humid with seasonal temperature and precipitation variations in warm–temperate zone during the Early Cretaceous.     

Anatomical Study of Cretaceous, Permineralized, Bennettitalean Fossils from Heilongjiang Province, NE China

Well-preserved Cretaceous trunk fragments of Cycadeoidea (Cycadeoidaceae) were recently found in Keshan County, Heilongjiang Province, Northeast China. These fossils represent important evidence of the distribution of this group of plants in East Asia. In these trunk fragments, the stem cortices and leaf bases with cones are preserved. The leaf bases are rhombic with cones infrequently distributed among leaf bases. The cortex is broad and consists of fundamental parenchyma cells, numerous secretory ducts and C-shaped leaf traces with adaxial secondary xylem and abaxial secondary phloem. The genus Cycadeoidea, which is widely distributed in the Cretaceous deposits of East Asia, North America and Western Europe, was an important component of Cretaceous floras. Bennettitalean trunk fossils with well-preserved anatomical structures are rarely known from China. These fossils are important for studies of the evolution of genus Cycadeoidea and for stratigraphic correlation.     

New fossil anurans from the Lower Cretaceous Sasayama Group of Hyogo Prefecture,Western Honshu,Japan

We describe two well-preserved and articulated fossil anurans excavated from the Lower Cretaceous Sasayama Group in Hyogo Prefecture, Western Honshu, Japan, as new taxa on the basis of unique combinations of character states. We performed a phylogenetic analysis that included these new taxa, as well as Mesozoic and archaic anurans. This analysis strongly supports the monophyly of each of the two new taxa, both of which are placed in more derived positions than extant leiopelmatids or Liaobatrachus from the Lower Cretaceous in China. Anuran specimens from the Tetori Group of Japan are not assigned to the two new taxa, suggesting that at least three anuran taxa were present in Japan during the Early Cretaceous. These Japanese representatives are not closely related to known fossil anurans from Eastern Eurasia, unlike recently described Cretaceous lizards from these two regions.     

西藏羌塘盆地光明湖地区早白垩世化石的发现及意义

西藏羌塘盆地以发育中生代海相地层为特征,成为近年来油气勘探的重要区块。对于整个盆地的中生代海相沉积是否跨入早白垩世过去仍存在一些争议。本次在光明湖一带的白龙冰河组上部采集到大量早白垩世化石,证实了该组沉积晚期已跨入早白垩世,为区域上与该组同时异相的其它中生代地层沉积时代的进一步厘定提供了新的化石依据。对整个羌塘盆地晚侏罗世—早白垩世沉积古地理的研究,以及羌塘盆地早白垩世海相地层的圈定和油气地质条件的探讨具有重要意义。     

辽西地区土城子组-义县组地层划分对比及时代讨论

本文介绍了辽西中生代土城组、张家口组、义县组地层特征、化石组合。通过岩石地层、生物地层、同位素年代学研究,并在宁城道虎沟地区的张家口组沉积层中采到的化石组合和同位素年龄多数反映时代为晚侏罗纪;义县组生物化石组合和同位素年龄反映时代为早白垩纪。故将侏罗纪与白垩纪界线置于张家口组与义县组之间,同国际年表年代界限（145.5 Ma）相一致。