江宁五通群上部古羊齿及其植物化石组合

南京江宁上坊上泥盆统五通群上部发现古羊齿，且较丰富，植物组合以鳞木类为主，钩蕨、古羊齿亦相当发育。这一组合与下石炭统的古植物有差异，其中古羊齿的标准性具广泛的地层对比意义。     

新疆准噶尔盆地东缘中—晚二叠世植物群及其地质意义

本文首次报道了新疆准噶尔盆地东缘胜利沟中二叠世平地泉组植物化石11属19种和晚二叠世黄梁沟组植物化石7属9种,并结合前人对这一地区中—晚二叠世植物化石记录,讨论了两个植物群的地质时代。研究认为：中二叠世平地泉组植物群以安加拉植物群为主,混生个别欧美植物群分子;晚二叠世黄梁沟组植物群为混生少量华夏植物群分子的安加拉植物群。在此基础上,探讨了中—晚二叠世植物群演替、植被变化、植物群混生与中亚造山带板块聚合之间的关系,认为中二叠世的暖温带温湿气候在晚二叠世转变为季节性干热气候,准噶尔盆地东缘中—晚二叠世植物群混生与准噶尔—吐哈地块、塔里木板块、佳蒙地块、华北板块的拼合和古亚洲洋的关闭密切相关。     

敦化隆起东缘晚石炭-早二叠世华夏植物群的发现及其地质意义

根据1998年在大蒜沟组首次发现的Neuropteris、Pecopteris、Cordaites等晚石炭——早二叠世华夏植物群以及与下伏地层的整合接触关系，证明开山屯地区晚石炭——早二叠世为连续的海陆交互相沉积。大蒜沟组华夏植物群的发现，结合开山屯地区晚二叠世华夏植物群的存在，表明该区在晚石炭世——早二叠世华夏植物就已开始分化、繁衍，成为华夏植物群东北亚区不可分割的一部分。     

内蒙古土默特旗晚石炭世—早二叠世鳞皮木及鳞木新资料

笔者等对内蒙古土默特旗上石炭统—下二叠统下部的鳞皮木和间鳞鳞木作了研究报道,这两种植物化石在内蒙古系首次发现,尤其是间鳞鳞木叶座各部分结构清晰,以上下叶座间有形成间隔带的鳞片痕为其特征,与其他鳞木不同,考虑作为一个新种予以记载。鳞皮木在国内主要发现于中石炭世,其在内蒙古晚石炭世—早二叠世的发现具重要的意义。     

塔里木西部石炭—二叠纪沉积体系特征

对塔里木西部地区３０余条剖面及钻井资料的全面系统分析研究，结合地震资料，认为石炭－二叠纪为一个完整的海进至海退旋回。在海进初期和海退末期为碳酸盐岩和碎屑岩混积时期，用＂混积陆棚＂的概念，将石炭－二叠系划分为下石炭统（个别地区的下二叠统下部）混积陆棚沉积体系；上石炭统至下二叠统下部为碳酸盐岩台地沉积体系；下二叠统上部至上二叠统为陆源碎屑沉积体系。     

安徽南部下石岩统—下二叠统有孔虫化石群

笔者在安徽南部贵池－东至地区上石炭统－下二叠统中首次发现丰富的有孔虫化石，经系统研究在上石炭统建立了两个组合，下二叠统建立了三个组合，并与国内相应地层有孔虫组合进行了对比。从而填补了该区晚石炭世－早二叠世有孔虫生物群的空白，丰富了生物群的内容，并讨论了林阶在该区的存在。     

甘肃北山明水南野马大泉地区地层的重要进展

经1:5万区调,将本区原定下石炭统分解为长城系白湖群、蓟县系平头山群以及新建单位——中、上奥陶统黄石岭群。在前人定的中震旦统或蓟县系分布区的查干哈格以北发现了青白口系。将前人1960年在该区划定的前震旦系北山群、后来改定的下志留统勒巴泉群原定为前长城系。并在破城山南坡前人原定下二叠统分布区,首次发现了上三叠统的生物地层。     

安徽南部上石炭统－下二叠统有孔虫化石群

笔者在安徽南部贵池一东至地区上石炭统一下二叠统中首次发现丰富的有孔虫化石，经系统研究在上石炭统建立了两个组合，下二叠统建立了三个组合，并与国内相应地层有孔虫组合进行了对比。从而填补了该区晚石炭世一早二叠世有孔虫生物群的空白，丰富了生物群的内容，并讨论了隆林阶在该区的存在。     

甘肃玉门鱼儿红盆地石炭二叠纪地层概述——兼论北祁连山一带华夏-安加拉混生植物群的地质时代

概述玉门鱼儿红盆地煤窑沟和金沟石炭二叠纪地层剖面，指出该区石炭纪岩石地层单元为羊虎沟组，二叠纪岩石地层单元为窑沟群，区内缺失大黄沟组。根据生物化石和地层层序，讨论了羊虎沟组和窑沟群的地质时代。Ｂｏｈｌｉｎ（１９７１）公布的少许有疑问的安加拉植物分子可能采自邻区的上二叠统上部。     

内蒙古土墨特旗晚石炭世—早二叠世鳞皮木及鳞木新资料

笔者等对内蒙古土墨特旗上石炭统一下二叠统下部的鳞皮木和间鳞鳞木作了研究报道,这两种植物化内蒙古系首次发现,尤其是间鳞鳞木叶座各部分结构清晰,以上下叶座间有形成间隔带的鳞片良为其特征,与其他鳞木不同,考虑作为一个新种予以记载。鳞皮木在国内主要发现于中石炭世,其在内蒙古晚石炭世一早二叠世的发现具重要的意义。     

我国腐植煤的还原性质及其与沉积环境的关系

一、不同还原性腐植煤的基本特征在研究华北聚煤区东部晚古生代太原组（C₃）和山西组（P₁1）煤性质差别及显微特征的基础上,作者认为除煤岩成分和变质程度外,还存在着影响煤质的第三个成因因素--还原性质。     

北天山上石炭统奇尔古斯套组中发现早二叠世珊瑚化石

新近于北天山艾维尔沟北原划为上石炭统的奇尔古斯套组火山岩系所夹灰岩中,采到了结节脊板杯珊瑚Cy-athocariniatuberculataSoshkina,其时代属于早二叠世,表明该区奇尔古斯套组的一部分应属下二叠统。另外,于头屯河原划为上石炭统的奇尔古斯套组火山-碎屑岩系所含灰岩砾石中,采到伊万诺夫格鲁特珊瑚GrootiaivanoviDubrolyubova,时代属于晚石炭世,与达拉阶(即莫斯科阶)相当,故地层时代应晚于晚石炭世达拉期,根据区域对比推测该地层的一部分也应属于下二叠统。艾维尔沟一带早二叠世珊瑚化石的发现,表明北天山石炭纪强烈的拉张事件可以持续到早二叠世。     

Diversity of the Woody Vegetation of Gondwanan Southern Africa

The flora of Gondwanan southern Africa is represented in the rock record by micro-fossils, macro-fossils and petrified woods. All these types of fossils are seldom preserved together in any one particular facies because of taphonomic and preservational biases. In order to obtain as accurate a picture as possible of the woody vegetation, both the fossil woods and other macroplant fossils, such as leaf impressions, fructifications and cuticle, of woody plants, have been correlated. This was done for each Formation in the Karoo Supergroup in order to illustrate the changes in diversity of woody vegetation over time. Sediments of the Karoo Supergroup represent the terrestrial fossil record of the period Upper Carboniferous to the Lower Cretaceous when Africa finally separated from South America. In the Upper Carboniferous to Lower Permian (Dwyka Formation) there are at least five described genera of woods from South Africa and Namibia. Early to Middle Permian woods (Ecca Group) are a little more diverse with six genera, representing the glossopterids, cordaitaleans and possibly other seed fern groups. Late Permian to Early Triassic (Beaufort Group) woods show very little change in diversity in spite of the major floral and biotic turnover evident from the rest of the fossil record. Although the Late Triassic (Molteno Formation) macro-flora has been shown to be an example of explosive diversification, the generally poorly preserved woods do not reflect this. Lower Jurassic fossils (Clarens Formation) are also poorly preserved but have araucarian characteristics. Early Cretaceous woods represent the Araucariaceae, Cheirolepidiaceae and Podocarpaceae with a number of species. The diversity of the woods has not changed as much as the rest of the floral components in southern Africa from the Late Carboniferous to the Early Cretaceous. Possible reasons for this apparent stasis are the conservative nature of wood, functional restrictions, limitations of suitable conditions for petrifications and the fact that very little research has been done on southern African woods.     

Floral biodiversity and geology of the Talcher Basin,Orissa, India during the Permian–Triassic interval

The review paper provides an updated account of the previous and recently published records concerning the palaeobiology and the geology of the Talcher Basin of Orissa State, India. We conclude that fossil floral species in this basin originated in the earliest Permian Talchir Formation and evolved and diversified through the Karharbari Fm., Barakar Fm., Barren Measures Fm. and the uppermost Kamthi Fm. (Late Permian–Triassic). The megaflora and the palynology of the different formations of the basin are also discussed briefly. The geological setting of the basin along with the status of different formations (especially the Kamthi Formation) has been redefined. The post‐Barakar Fm. rocks, earlier retained in the Raniganj/Kamthi, Panchet and Mahadeva formations in this basin, have been critically assessed and redefined as the Lower and Upper Kamthi formations of Late Permian and Triassic ages, respectively. Accordingly, the geological map of the basin has been modified. Permian deposits (particularly the Barakar and the lower Kamthi formations) not only have the best preserved flora but also possess the highest diversity, whereas the upper Kamthi Triassic sediments have a meagre number of taxa. The plant diversity of the basin has been discussed in detail to interpret the development of the flora, evolutionary trends and palaeoenvironments of the basin. The patchy Gangamopteris vegetation of the Talchir glacial phase has ultimately evolved and diversified through time (Karharbari Fm. to Lower Kamthi Fm.) and gave rise to the thick dense swampy forests consisting of large Glossopteris trees and other shade‐loving under‐storied pteridophytes. Several groups of plants including spores and pollen have disappeared in a ladder pattern during the Permian–Triassic interval (Lower Kamthi–Upper Kamthi Fm.) and, similarly, in steps, many new fore‐runners appeared in the Upper Kamthi Formation. Records of marine acritarchs and ichnofossils in this basin at various Permian–Triassic levels demonstrate that there were marine influences. These features suggest a paralic (coastal marine to deltaic) mode of origin of the coal beds and associated sediments in the basin. The present study also advocates the continued survival of plants, rather than a mass extinction near the vicinity of the Permian–Triassic (P–T) boundary in this basin. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Sedimentary response to the paleogeographic and tectonic evolution of the southern North China Craton during the late Paleozoic and Mesozoic

With the aim of constraining the influence of the surrounding plates on the Late Paleozoic–Mesozoic paleogeographic and tectonic evolution of the southern North China Craton (NCC), we undertook new U–Pb and Hf isotope data for detrital zircons obtained from ten samples of upper Paleozoic to Mesozoic sediments in the Luoyang Basin and Dengfeng area. Samples of upper Paleozoic to Mesozoic strata were obtained from the Taiyuan, Xiashihezi, Shangshihezi, Shiqianfeng, Ermaying, Shangyoufangzhuang, Upper Jurassic unnamed, and Lower Cretaceous unnamed formations (from oldest to youngest). On the basis of the youngest zircon ages, combined with the age-diagnostic fossils, and volcanic interlayer, we propose that the Taiyuan Formation (youngest zircon age of 439 Ma) formed during the Late Carboniferous and Early Permian, the Xiashihezi Formation (276 Ma) during the Early Permian, the Shangshihezi (376 Ma) and Shiqianfeng (279 Ma) formations during the Middle–Late Permian, the Ermaying Group (232 Ma) and Shangyoufangzhuang Formation (230 and 210 Ma) during the Late Triassic, the Jurassic unnamed formation (154 Ma) during the Late Jurassic, and the Cretaceous unnamed formation (158 Ma) during the Early Cretaceous. These results, together with previously published data, indicate that: (1) Upper Carboniferous–Lower Permian sandstones were sourced from the Northern Qinling Orogen (NQO); (2) Lower Permian sandstones were formed mainly from material derived from the Yinshan–Yanshan Orogenic Belt (YYOB) on the northern margin of the NCC with only minor material from the NQO; (3) Middle–Upper Permian sandstones were derived primarily from the NQO, with only a small contribution from the YYOB; (4) Upper Triassic sandstones were sourced mainly from the YYOB and contain only minor amounts of material from the NQO; (5) Upper Jurassic sandstones were derived from material sourced from the NQO; and (6) Lower Cretaceous conglomerate was formed mainly from recycled earlier detritus.The provenance shift in the Upper Carboniferous–Mesozoic sediments within the study area indicates that the YYOB was strongly uplifted twice, first in relation to subduction of the Paleo-Asian Ocean Plate beneath the northern margin of the NCC during the Early Permian, and subsequently in relation to collision between the southern Mongolian Plate and the northern margin of the NCC during the Late Triassic. The three episodes of tectonic uplift of the NQO were probably related to collision between the North and South Qinling terranes, northward subduction of the Mianlue Ocean Plate, and collision between the Yangtze Craton and the southern margin of the NCC during the Late Carboniferous–Early Permian, Middle–Late Permian, and Late Jurassic, respectively. The southern margin of the central NCC was rapidly uplifted and eroded during the Early Cretaceous.     

异珊瑚目的地史分布与化石组合

异珊瑚化石始发现于早泥盆世 ,早石炭世为鼎盛时期 ,至早二叠世末全部绝灭。本研究将异珊瑚划分为 4个化石组合 ,并对异珊瑚的起源、分布及迁移规律及生态环境等进行了讨论。化石组合由老至新分别为 :早泥盆世 Tetraphyllia组合 ;晚泥盆世 Oligophylloides-H eterophyllia组合 ;早石炭世 Pentaphyllia-H exaphyllia-Radiciphyllia 组合 ;早二叠世 Dichophyllia-H eterophyllia-H exaphylloides组合。并指出异珊瑚属于热带—亚热带至暖温带的生物类群 ,起源中心可能为中国华南板块     

甘肃靖远石炭系研究新进展

<正> 甘肃靖远磁窑的石炭系出露完整,富含生物化石,李星学等(1974)作了较详细研究,奠定了本区石炭系层序的基础,首次建立了西北地区属于纳缪尔期的地层单元——靖远组。此后,不少地层和古生物工作者在对靖远磁窑石炭系作过调查,高联达对下石炭统作过孢粉研究(1980),王志浩、王成源(1983),史美良、赵治信(1985)对该区石炭系部分层     

河南淅川早石炭世地层及皱纹珊瑚

河南淅川位于秦岭东端南坡,早石炭世地层发育完好,为一套正常浅海碳酸盐沉积,厚度大于1000m。下石炭统下部和上部分别称为下集组和梁询组。下石炭统含有丰富的珊瑚化石,层位集中于梁沟组的上部,其珊瑚动物群性质基本上与华南地区一致,属于同一珊瑚动物区系。 本文共描述皱纹珊瑚8属9种,其中新种8个,异珊瑚1属1未定种。     

新疆哈密坳陷早三叠世孢粉组合及其地层意义

哈密坳陷早三叠世古生物记录甚少。从哈参 2井 80 1.5 m- 16 39.5 m井段的泥岩中发现了较为丰富的孢粉化石 ,并可划分为两个组合 :L imatulasporites- Cyclogranisporites- Alisporites组合和 L imatulasporites- L undbladis-pora- Taeniaesporites组合。根据孢粉组合特征及其对比 ,两组合的地质时代应属早三叠世 ,这为哈密坳陷确立下三叠统的存在提供了重要的古生物依据     

云南永德鱼塘寨石炭－二叠系界线剖面的生物地层学及沉积环境

云南永德鱼塘寨石炭－二叠界线剖面沉积连续、化石丰富，可作为滇西地区的代表性剖面，自石洞寺组至草坝山头组底部灰岩可划分出１６种主要的碳酸盐微相类型，分别形成于外陆架、中陆架和内陆架环境。