南海南部晚中新世的放射虫及其环境探讨

南海是东亚古季风产物的主要沉积盆地，保存着比陆地更加完整和连续的沉积记录。详细分析了ODP1143号钻井晚中新世的放射虫化石群，主要根据标志种Diartus petterssoni,D.hughesi和Stichocorys delmontensis等的分布特征，分别建立了南海南部晚中新世的RN6，RN7和RN8等3个放射虫化石带，并讨论了其地层年龄。探讨了以地层中放射虫的丰度变化特征等在南海南部作为东亚古夏季风活动替代性指标的可能性，初步说明东亚古夏季风可能早于8．7Ma B.P．出现，约在8．24Ma B.P.强化达到高峰，认为与印度季风的出现几乎同步或略早。     

龙感湖地区近3000年来的植被及其气候定量重建

本文依据龙感湖钻孔的孢粉及硅藻资料，探讨了该地区近３０００年来的植被发展及气候变化，通过数值分析方法，重建了年均温及年降水的时间序列，发现气候波动存在的两个阶段，（依１．５ｋａＢ．Ｐ．前后划分）四个旋回（０．８ｋａ的准周期）两个突变事件（３ｋａＢ．Ｐ）前后的冷暖急剧变化及１ｋａＢ．Ｐ的降温事件）。这些变化与敦德冰心及固城湖孢粉反映的气候波动有较好的一致性，具有全球变化意义。     

太平洋西南部邦蒂海沟地震地层

邦蒂海沟是新西兰陆缘东部的一个晚白垩世夭折裂谷，于南太平洋现代海底扩张初期形成．该海沟向西与新西兰南岛陆壳、向北与查塔姆海岭、向南与坎贝尔海台相邻．同周围的大陆腹地一样，海沟内的沉积物为白垩纪裂谷充填物．其后为下蚀的白垩纪末期至早第三纪海相沉积和早第三纪至晚第三纪深海生物相沉积。     

Oviraptorosaurian Eggs (Dinosauria) with Embryonic Skeletons Discovered for the First Time in China

Two elongatoolithid dinosaur eggs from the Upper Cretaceous of Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province and the embryonic skeletons they bear are described. They represent the first oviraptorosaurian eggs with embryonic skeletons in China and provide the first example that an oospecies can be correlated to certain dinosaur taxon/taxa. The two eggs are the same as the pair of the eggs inside a female oviraptorosaurian pelvis from the same horizon of the same area in both macro- and micro-structures of the egg shells, and can he referred to the oospecies, Macroolithus yaotunensis Zhao, 1975. The morphology of the preserved part of the embryonic skeletons indicates that they may have been laid by an oviraptorid, Heyuannia huangi from Guangdong Province or a closely related oviraptorosaurian, which may have been lived in the Ganzhou area too in the Late Cretaceous. The embryonic skeletons of the two eggs are not in the same developing stage. In one of the eggs, the postzygapophysis of the preserved vertebrae are well ossified, indicating that it was just hatched.     

Discussion on Induan—Olenekian Boundary in Chohu,Anhui Province, China

This paper proposes a scheme for the definition of the Lower Triassic Induan-Olenekian boundary(IOB) based on investigation of sections in Chaohu, Anhui Province, China as well as data accunulated from other studies elsewhere. The conodont Neospathodus waageni is suggested as the index fossil of the boundary. According to the FAD of N.waageni, the IOB is at the base of bed 25-2 of the West Pingdingshan Section in Chaohu,42.19 m above the Permian-Triassic boundary, and it is slightly higher than the base of the Flemingites-Euflemingites Ammonoid Zone at the section.     

宁城中生代道虎沟生物群中两类具原始羽翼龙的发现及其地层学和生物学意义

本文实事求是地介绍了道虎沟生物群的组成及相关地层的岩性，并根据长尾型嘴口龙类(Rhamphorhynchoidea)翼龙与短尾型翼手龙类（Pterodactyloidea）翼龙同期共生的特点，确信道虎沟生物群的地质时代为晚株罗世。此外，本文还研究了道虎沟生物群中翼龙身上发育的皮肤衍生物，初步认为它们是原始羽毛（protofeathers)，至少是与羽毛同源的（feather-homologous)，这对于了解羽毛（广义）的演化历史和早期的形态结构将具有十分重要的意义。