中国双壳类古生物学研究近百年来的发展

近百年来，中国化石双壳类的研究经历了从无到有，从基础资料的积累到向基础理论方向发展和关门自守到走向世界的过程，逐渐摆脱了“标准化石”和从属地位，走上古生物学发展的道路。新中国成立后，经过我国几代双壳类古生物学工作者们的努力，中国各地质时期的双壳类组成总貌和双壳类化石的层序地层学已经得到揭示和确定，双壳类的起源、演化、埋葬、古生态和古生物地理学也受到不同程度的研究或探讨。双壳类古生物学已经并正在积极而有效地指导或支持地质生产。顾知微院士是我国化石双壳类学科最重要的承传和奠基人。

Advances in Bivalve Paleontology of the Last Hundred Years in China

In China, all the deposits of Cambrian Quaternary yield bivalve fossils. There was, however, no Chinese studying them until 1926 when King Sohtsu G. published his paper of Notes on the fossil shells of the Sanmen Series, and in the next year Chao Yaseng T. published his famous monograph of Fauna of the Taiyuan Formation in north China, Pelecypoda. The paper Lamellibranchiata published by Gu Zhiwei in 1957 laid a foundation of the advance of bivalve paleontology of China, and the monograph of Fossil Lamellibranchiata of China published by Gu Zhiwei et al. In 1979, the whole study of fossil bivalve lighted up in China. In last 100 years, great advances in the study of fossil bivalve have been obtained. In recently 50 years, the general features of bivalves from various geological ages and the stratigraphy of bivalve fossil sequences have been revealed and established in China. The origin, evolution, taphonomy, paleoecology and paleobiogeography of bivalves have been also studied in a certain extent. Bivalve paleontology is playing an important role in the geological study and minerals exploration.