帽儿山森林生态系统蚯蚓区系组成研究

帽儿山林区蚯蚓种类较丰富，有2科6属8种，正蚓科的赤子爱胜蚓、粉正蚓及微小双胸蚓为优势种，从年龄结构上看，该地区蚯蚓种群属增长型，成蚓少于幼蚓，对林型系列研究表明白桦林的蚯蚓数量最少，对生态系列蚯蚓研究表明，蚯蚓生物量和个体密度随着地形坡位的升高而增大，热量因子对森林生态系统蚯蚓种群分布起着重要作用。     

A new species of Gobiconodon （Triconodonta, Mammalia） and its implication for the age of Jehol Biota

A new species of Gobiconodon is found from the Yixian Formation of western Liaonlng, China. The new taxa,G zofiae sp. nov., has a confluent opening for branches Ⅱand Ⅲ of the trigeminal nerve on the anterior lamina of the petrosal. G zofiae sp. nov. is similar to Repenomamus in having an ossified Meckel‘s cartilage connecting the lower jaws and ear region. The new species, with enlarged I^1/I1, posteriorly located infraorbital foramen and four mental foramina,distinctly differs from the other species of Gobiconodon. The new material indicates that Gobiconodon has four, not five,upper molariforms. The presence of Gobiconodon in Jchol Biota makes it possible to correlate Jehol Biota with faunas in eastern Asia and North America, and suggests the age of the Yixian Formation to be Early Cretaceous.     

辽西早白垩世义县组大康堡层纹泥的古环境意义

辽西地区义县组湖泊沉积层中产出著名的“热河生物群”化石,对于此时期古环境的研究一直是诸多学者关注的焦点.本文对大康堡层湖相纹泥展开研究,重建此时期古环境.通过野外及室内对纹泥组成、类型、厚度等方面的观测,对此时期古气候有了新的认识.纹泥厚度特征变化表明沉积期降水量和沉积速率逐渐减小,统计洪水沉积间纹层数量可指示沉积期洪水事件的频率和规模.结合近现代纹泥形成和保存条件,可知该地区沉积期湖泊水体较深,湖水分层,存在一个缺氧环境,具有较小的表面积/深度比,湖盆形态适合,未受到风的侵扰.     

简说羽毛化石的研究

自第一枚始祖鸟化石发现以来,鸟类的起源与演化成为了古生物研究的热点之一。有关鸟类的起源问题涉及了恐龙以及早期鸟类的形态结构、飞行以及羽毛等多方面内容。在早白垩世热河生物群以及相邻地区侏罗纪地层发现的许多保存精美的带毛恐龙,中生代的鸟类化石,为鸟类的恐龙起源提供了重要证据,并且使我们对羽毛的起源和演化有了较丰富的认识。笔者主要介绍了带毛恐龙的羽毛化石的研究现状,并结合发育生物学,讨论了关于羽毛的发育和演化问题。     

热河生物群--探索中生代生命演化的世界级化石宝库

最近十多年来,我国在热河生物群各门类生物研究方面取得了一系列重要的发现和成果。我国辽西地区已经成为世界上研究鸟类起源,恐龙的进化,鸟类、哺乳动物以及被子植物的早期演化和辐射等最重要的地区之一。同位素测年技术的广泛应用,表明热河生物群属于早白垩世,在地球上延续了大约2千万年。热河生物群的繁盛和东亚地区当时特有的温暖的淡水和陆地环境具有密切的联系。而频繁的火山活动又是化石得以大量完美保存的重要因素之一。热河生物群的研究还具有很大的潜力,而对化石的科学发掘和保护的任务还十分艰巨。     

中国的翼龙化石研究的若干进展

近年来在辽西及其周边地区的早白垩世热河生物群中发现了大量的翼龙化石,其中包括带毛的热河翼龙等,为翼龙温血提供了新的证据;具有翼龙胚胎的蛋化石,使翼龙的卵生生殖方式得到确认;最小的树栖翼龙的发现,显示了白垩纪翼龙的个体分异和对环境的适应。同时,此前仅仅在欧洲和南美大陆出现的翼龙化石在这一地区的大量发现和研究,揭示了热河翼龙动物群的多样性和动物古地理分布规律,为深入了解一些重要翼龙类群的起源、演化和辐射提供了翔实的化石材料。     

Pyrite framboids associated with the Mesozoic Jehol Biota in northeastern China: Implications for microenvironment during early fossilization

Despite of the recent influx of reports describing important fossil specimens from the Mesozoic Jehol Biota, detailed information on the mechanism of fossilization and paleoenvironment in which these fossils were deposited is scanty. We present an analysis of microenvironment based upon scanning electron microscope observations of in situ pyrite framboids and microcrystallines of plant and vertebrate feather fossils in the Jehol Biota. Pyrite microcrystallines and framboids occur extensively inside and on surface of plant fossils.Framboids found on feathers and in sedimentary matrix were in a lower abundance. These framboids have diameters ranging from 6 μm to 31 μm with an average of 20 μm, indicating a dysoxic aqueous condition with free oxygen level less than 30 μmol/L for the microenvironment where these framboids were formed. The outgrowth of framboids inside plant tissues suggests the presence of water molecules and free oxygen at the cellular level during pyritization; the relative timing between tissue decay and framboid formation implies a rapid tissue degradation occurred during the very early stage of fossilization. This line of reasoning is consistent with the observation that cell level structure of plant fossils from these deposits is rarely preserved. We propose a "fossil envelop" model to accommodate the different geochemical conditions between the microenvironment surrounding the fossil material and the macroenvironment of background lake bottom water.     

A new pterosaur (Pterodactyloidea,Tapejaridae) from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of western Liaoning,China and its implications for biostratigraphy

In this article we describe a new and exceptionally weel-preserved pterodactyloid pterosaur,Sinopterus dong gen.et sp.nov.from the Jiufotang Formation in western Liaoning Province of northeast China,The new species is referred to the family Tapejaridae,representing its first record outside Brazil.It also represents the earliest occurrence as well as the most complete sketeton of the famil.Some revisions are made about the family according to the mophological observations of the postcranial bones of Sinopterus.Two pterosaur assemblages appear to have existed in the Jehol Group,represented by the lower Yixian Formation and upper Jiufotang Formation,respectively,The lower pterosaur assemblage shows some resembalance to that of the Late Jurassic in Solnhofen (Tithonian)by sharing members of the Pterodactylidae and Anurognathidae.The upper one shows more resemblance to that to the Early Cretaceous Santana Formation (Aptian/Albian) by comprising only pterodactyloids such as the Tapejaridae,The age of the Yixian Formation is younger than that of the Solnhofen lihographic limestone ,and the age of the Jiufotang Formation (Aptian )is slightly older than the Santana Formation.     

The occurrence of the genus Marrella(Trilobitoidea) in Asia

An important discovery in the Kaili Biota has been made recently, and many interesting components from ChengjiangBiota and Burgess Shale Biota have been discovered. Among them Marrella, only known from mid-Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale Biotaof British Columbia, Canada, is one of the most important arthropods fossils. Because the Kaili Biota is older than the Burgess Shale Biota,the strange head shield of Marrella occurring in the Kaili Biota outside Laurentia ranges from mid-Middle Cambrian to early Middle Cam-brian and is significant for the reconstruction of palaeogeography and evolutionary study of early metazoa. In the present paper Marrellasp. is reported for the first time in Asia.