关于清河镇动物群和昌图动物群化石的一些问题──答陈孟莪的质疑

本文根据手标本上、岩石切片上以及岩样上所见的化石与国外发表的已知假化石作了比较研究;从用酸溶样实验提取了化石的论据;对微体化石与其它的微体化石的共生现象进行了研究;还从化石出现与重现的实际资料、化石的生物组织和结构特征与已知生物化石进行了对比,并从生物信息、化石的化学成分、矿物成分的测试等几个主要方面论证了两群化石的真实性质。     

山东诸城晚白垩世恐龙动物群研究进展

自从20世纪60年代初在山东诸城发现第一具恐龙骨架“巨型山东龙”以来,一系列具有代表性的恐龙骨骼化石在诸城白垩纪地层中被发现,特别是埋藏于诸城晚白垩世地层中恐龙骨骼化石群,最为引人注目。目前研究发现了包括鸭嘴龙类、角龙类、暴龙类等在内的多种恐龙类型,为丰富我国东部白垩纪恐龙动物群的研究提供了新的宝贵材料。该文系统总结和归纳了近些年来在诸城晚白垩世地层中发现的恐龙骨骼化石及其所代表的恐龙动物群类型的研究成果,同时又提出了目前依然存在的一些亟待解决的关键问题和研究意义,有助于下一步更好的深入研究诸城晚白垩世恐龙动物群。     

贵州紫云石头寨晚二叠世—中三叠世牙形石动物群及生态意义

本文所研究的贵州紫云石头寨上二叠统长兴组—中三叠统新苑组牙形石,共计5属14种,其中Hindeodus julfensis在华南系首次发现。文中对下三叠统罗楼组上部—中三叠统新苑组下部共建立了3个牙形石带,它们是Neospathodus timorensis带、Neogondolella regale带和N.constricta带。其中N.regale在华南属首次报导。此外就N.timorensis带的时代归属作了讨论,认为该带应属早三叠世晚期。而N.regale带为安尼阶最下部的牙形石带。文中还对牙形石的生态作了初步探讨。     

5.30Ma以来华北哺乳动物群与磁性地层序列

通过中国北方５．３０Ｍａ以来含丰富哺乳动物化石的典型剖面的磁性地层研究,建立５．３０Ｍａ以来中国北方陆相哺乳动物群与磁性地层序列对比。中国黄土记录了Ｂｒｕｎｈｅｓ正极性带与Ｍａｔｕｙａｍａ负极性带,黄土年龄约２．５０ＭａＢ．Ｐ．,其中发现有午城动物群、公王岭动物群、阳郭动物群、陈家窝动物群与靖远动物群。三门组记录了Ｍａｔｕｙａｍａ负极性带下段,年龄约１．２０—２．５０Ｍａ,其中发现有三门动物群。静乐剖面的静乐红土对应于Ｇａｕｓｓ正极性带上段,年龄约２．５０—３．００Ｍａ,其中发现有静乐贺丰动物群。游河组记录了Ｇａｕｓｓ正极性带,年龄约２．５０—３．４０Ｍａ,其中发现游河动物群。泥河湾沉积对应于Ｂｒｕｎｈｅｓ正极性带、Ｍａｔｕｙａｍａ负极性带、Ｇａｕｓｓ正极性带,年龄约０．１３—３．４０Ｍａ。其中小长梁剖面记录了Ｂｒｕｎｈｅｓ正极性带与Ｍａｔｕｙａｍａ负极性带上段（含Ｊａｒａｍｉｌｏ亚带）,年龄约０．１３—１．００Ｍａ（其中含化石及石器地层年龄约０．９０—１．００Ｍａ）。榆社盆地麻则沟组记录了Ｇａｕｓｓ正极性带（２．５０—３．４０Ｍａ）,高庄组记录了Ｇｉｌｂｅｒｔ负极性带（３．４０—５．３０Ｍａ）。     

To what extent are the fish compositions at nearshore sites along a heterogeneous coast related to habitat type?

This study has tested the following main hypotheses. (1) The composition of fish assemblages in nearshore waters along the lower west coast of Australia will differ significantly among four habitat types (1–4), which could be distinguished quantitatively from each other by differences in the values for a statistically selected suite of enduring environmental variables. (2) The extents of the differences in ichthyofaunal composition among the four habitat types will statistically match those in the suite of environmental variables that distinguish those habitat types. A 60.5 m long seine net, with 9 mm mesh in the bunt, was used seasonally for 2 years to sample fish from sites representing each of the four nearshore habitat types, which differed broadly in their exposure to wave activity and the extent and location of seagrass beds. The compositions of the fish faunas in each habitat type were significantly different from each other in all but one case. Ichthyofaunal composition did not differ significantly between years in any habitat type and differed significantly among seasons in only one habitat type. The arrangement of the rank orders of similarity in matrices constructed from the abundances of the fish species at each site also did not differ between years but did differ among seasons. Moreover, the arrangement of the ranks in the similarity matrices produced from the ichthyofaunal data recorded at the various sites in each season were significantly correlated with that in the distance matrix constructed from the environmental data for those sites, with the correlation (ρ) ranging from 0.476 in winter to 0.696 in autumn. These results thus demonstrate that the extents of the differences in the fish compositions among the various habitat types parallel those in the environmental data for the corresponding habitat types. The subset of species that provided the best correlation with the environmental distance matrix, and which was thus most responsible for distinguishing among the fish compositions at the four habitat types, was also determined for each season.     

Eocene drill holes in cold-seep bivalves of Hokkaido, northern Japan

Four specimens of the thyasirid Conchocele bisecta (Conrad) and one small specimen of the vesicomyid Hubertschenckia ezoensis (Yokoyama), each with a drill hole made by a naticid gastropod, were found at a cold‐seep site in the upper Eocene Poronai Formation of Hokkaido. This is apparently the oldest record not only of drill holes, but also of predation scars, in a cold‐seep fauna. In addition, drilled vesicomyids are known from several Miocene cold‐seep sites in Japan. We suggest that the Eocene and Miocene chemoautotrophic bivalves were drilled only in the shallow‐water settings preferred by most naticids. The lack of drill holes in Oligocene chemoautotrophic bivalves in the northwestern USA suggests that this innovation, which allowed naticids to prey upon highly toxic bivalves, first appeared in the western Pacific during the Eocene.     

浙江中全新世海滩岩中的动物群及其古气候古环境意义

本文首次全面报道了产于浙江象山县爵溪镇下沙、大岙和岱山县大长涂岛小沙河中全新世海滩岩中的动物群，计有４３属５４种贝类和７属１０种有孔虫，８属８种介形类。进行了生态类型的划分和古今对比研究，认为与当地现生动物群有明显差别；发现了１６种热带贝类，而有孔虫、介形类未见冷水种，揭示了中全新世时当地气候比现今温暖，也证实了浙江海滩岩是中全新世热带环境条件下的产物。     

The benthic communities of the Snorre field in the Northern North Sea (61°30′ N 2°10′ E): 1. The distribution and structure of communities in undisturbed sediments

The fauna of the Snorre oil field is diverse and varies along a 40 m depth gradient across the area. Abundance and species richness increase with increasing depth but diversity is highest in the centre of the gradient. The communities present differ widely from those of the adjacent but shallower Statfjord, Gullfaks and Tordis Fields and from the major communities found throughout much of the northern North Sea, a fact attributable to the greater depth, finer sediments, higher sediment organic levels and position on the western slope of the Norwegian Trench. They have greater affinities with the communities in the Troll Field, 85 km SE on silt/clay sediments in the floor of the trench and the Heidrun Field, situated approximately 390 km N at similar depths and in an area of similar sedimentary composition. However the Snorre communities have a much higher number of suspension feeding and surface deposit feeding organisms than either of these other areas. This might be caused by higher current speeds in the Snorre area which could create favourable conditions for suspensivores. Such water movements might bring occasional incursions of intermediate Norwegian Sea water into the area. Indeed the Snorre fauna appears to bear some relationships to the intermediate depth faunas of the Norwegian Sea, and is clearly different from most of the better described northern North Sea faunas.     

Polychaete Vertical Zonation along a Littoral Cliff in the Western Méditerranean

Abstract. Along the vertical cliff of Romito (Leghorn, Italy) 97 polychaete species were found from 0 to 6 m depth. Three depth related communities could be identified by trends in structural parameters (abundance, number of species, and diversity), by changes in species composition, and by the distribution of ecological and trophic groups. Such a zonation is consistent with the principal models proposed for the Méditerranean and seems mainly related to algal conditioning of the substrate.     

Zonation and Ecology of Epiphytic Hydroids in a Mediterranean Coastal Lagoon: The 'Stagnone' of Marsala (North-West Sicily)

Abstract. Distribution patterns of epiphytic hydroids of seagrass ( Posidonia occanica and Cymodocea nodosa ) beds were studied in the 'Stagnone', a moderately hypcrhaline lagoon in Sicily. The role of water movement in determining the spatial and temporal zonation of epiphytic hydroids and their morpho-physiological variations is evaluated. Remarks on systematics arc also included.