京西早白垩世丸甲（昆虫纲，鞘翅目）化石

根据北京西山下白垩统卢尚坟组的甲虫化石，建立化石丸甲二新属三新种：Ｍｅｓｏｂｙｒｒｈｕｓｔａｎａｅｇｅｎ．ｅｔｓｐ．ｎｏｖ，Ｍｅｓｏｂｙｒｒｈｕｓｐａｒｖｕｓｇｅｎ．ｅｔｎｏｖ．和Ｆａｎｇｓｈａｎｅｌａｓｔｏｌｉｄａｇｅｎ．ｅｔｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．．初步探讨了丸甲科昆虫的演化，认为丸甲科是鞘翅目中很古老的一类，和其它科关系不大，自中生代后期以来演化十分缓慢     

中国潜叶蜂族新属种(膜翅目:叶蜂科)(英文)

描述了中国潜叶蜂族两新属三新种：短角额潜叶蜂Sinoscoliabrevicortnisgen.etsp.now.新属新种,故背鞘潜叶蝶Paraparnarubiginosagenetsp.now.新属材种,郑氏臀潜叶峰Afusazhengisp.nov.新种。指出臀游计蜂属是中国新记录属.     

A new fossil genus of Mesosciophilidae （Diptera, Nematocera） with two new species from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China

A new genus within the family Mesosciophilidae,Jurasciophila gen.nov.,with two new species,J.curvula gen.et sp.nov.and J.lepida gen.et sp.nov.,are described and illustrated.They are established based on fossil specimens with bodies and complete wings.All of them were collected from the late Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation of Daohugou in southeastern Inner Mongolia,China.Comparing with two known genera,Mesosciophilina (Kovalev,1985) and Mesosciophilopsis (Blagoderov,1994),the new genus has transitional characters.The distribution pattern of Mesosciophilidae is briefly discussed.     

福建二叠纪介形类两新属

报道产自福建二叠纪的化石介形类两新属．Ｄａｔｉａｎｉａ　ｇｅｎ．ｎｏｖ，产自大田崆峒山晚二叠世长兴组上部，其共生化石主要有丰富的介形类、蜒、非蜒有孔虫和牙形刺．Ｈｅｔｅｒｏｂａｉｒ　ｄｉａ ｇｅｎ．ｎｏｖ．产自大田广平早二叠世栖霞组近中部．其共生化石主要有极丰富的介形类和非蜓有孔虫．根据它们的构造特征和壳面装饰特点，分别将Ｄａｔｉａｎｉａ　ｇｅｎ．ｎｏｖ．和Ｈｅｔｅｒｏｂａｉｒｄｉａ　ｇｅｎ．ｎｏｖ．归入Ａｒｃｙｚｏｉｄａｅ科．结合其共生化石内容和岩性特征，两新属应营正常浅海底栖生活方式．     

New evidence on deinonychosaurian dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia

Most of what is known about the evolution of deinonychosaurs (that is, the group of theropods most closely related to birds) is based on discoveries from North America and Asia. Except for Unenlagia comahuensis and some fragmentary remains from northern Africa, no other evidence was available on deinonychosaurian diversity in Gondwana. Here we report a new, Late Cretaceous member of the clade, Neuquenraptor argentinus gen. et sp. nov., representing uncontroversial evidence of a deinonychosaurian theropod in the Southern Hemisphere. The new discovery demonstrates that Cretaceous theropod faunas from the southern continents shared greater similarity with those of the northern landmasses than previously thought. Available evidence suggests that deinonychosaurians were probably distributed worldwide at least by the beginning of the Cretaceous period. The phylogenetic position of the new deinonychosaur, as well as other Patagonian coelurosaurian theropods, is compatible with a vicariance model of diversification for some groups of Gondwanan and Laurasian dinosaurs.     

New dragonflies （Insecta： Odonata： Gomphaeschnidae） from the Yixian Formation in Inner Mongolia,China

Two fossil dragonflies from the Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation in Liutiaogou Village, Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia, China are described and illustrated. They are assigned to two new genera and species, i.e., Sophoaeschna frigida gen. et sp. nov. and Falsisophoaeschna generalis gen. et sp. nov. within the family Gomphaeschnidae Tillyard ＆ Fraser, 1940. This is the first report of Odonata from Yixian Formation in Inner Mongolia and the second record of fossil Gomphaeschnidae from China.     

New dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata: Gomphaeschnidae) from the Yixian Formation in Inner Mongolia, China

Two fossil dragonflies from the Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation in Liutiaogou Village, Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia, China are described and illustrated. They are assigned to two new genera and species, i.e., Sophoaeschna frigida gen. et sp. nov. and Falsisophoaeschna generalis gen. et sp. nov. within the family Gomphaeschnidae Tillyard & Fraser, 1940. This is the first report of Odonata from Yixian Formation in Inner Mongolia and the second record of fossil Gomphaeschnidae from China.     

Discovery of fossil monocotyledons from Yixian Formation, western Liaoning

This is the first reports of a few fossil monocotyledons, includingLiaoxia chenii gen. et sp. nov. (belonging to Cyperaceae),Eragrosites changii gen. et sp. nov. (Gramineae) and a monocotyledonous leaf-shoot, obtained from the Late Jurassic Yixian Formation of western Liaoning Province, NE China. These fossils are the oldest known angiosperms in the world. It may be inferred that the earliest angiosperms probably appeared even earlier than the Late Jurassic.     

Live birth in the Devonian period

The extinct placoderm fishes were the dominant group of vertebrates throughout the Middle Palaeozoic era, yet controversy about their relationships within the gnathostomes (jawed vertebrates) is partly due to different interpretations of their reproductive biology. Here we document the oldest record of a live-bearing vertebrate in a new ptyctodontid placoderm, Materpiscis attenboroughi gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Devonian Gogo Formation of Australia (approximately 380 million years ago). The new specimen, remarkably preserved in three dimensions, contains a single, intra-uterine embryo connected by a permineralized umbilical cord. An amorphous crystalline mass near the umbilical cord possibly represents the recrystallized yolk sac. Another ptyctodont from the Gogo Formation, Austroptyctodus gardineri, also shows three small embryos inside it in the same position. Ptyctodontids have already provided the oldest definite evidence for vertebrate copulation, and the new specimens confirm that some placoderms had a remarkably advanced reproductive biology, comparable to that of some modern sharks and rays. The new discovery points to internal fertilization and viviparity in vertebrates as originating earliest within placoderms.     

华南地区湖南省芙蓉统(上寒武统)的古蠕虫骨片:个体生长对表皮骨片形态的影响

报道最近发现的华南地区湖南省芙蓉统(上寒武统)三维保存的古蠕虫骨片碎片。描述两个新的形态属和两个新的形态种: Hunanoscolex campus 新属新种和Ornatoscolex hunanensis新属新种。大部分标本属于幼体阶段。Hunanoscolex campus体节宽度的巨大差异显示其处于生长发育阶段, 因此可以对个体生长对表皮骨片形态的影响进行研究。虫体生长主要依靠增加单个体节中骨片的数量。位于同一排中的大骨板排列变得疏松。新增加的小骨板和微骨板大小和纹饰基本不变, 但大骨板的纹饰可能存在变化。这些观察结果有助于更好地理解古蠕虫骨片的种内差异, 从而可能提高形态种属分类的准确性。     

Two new ornithurine birds from the Early Cretaceous of western Liaoning, China

We describe two new ornithurine birds from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of western Liaoning, northeast China: Yanornis martini gen. et sp. nov. and Yixianornis grabaui gen. et sp. nov. They represent the best fossil record of ornithurine birds known from the Early Cretaceous. They are more advanced than the most primitive ornithurine Liaoningornis, and are more similar to the other two Chinese Early Cretaceous ornithurines Chaoyangia and Songlingornis. Compared with Confuciusornis, Liaoxiornis and Eoenantiornis from the same age, the two new birds show remarkable advanced characteristics and suggest the presence of powerful flight capability like modern birds. Compared with Yixianornis and Chaoyangia, Yanornis is larger, with a more elongated skull and relatively long wings. The new discoveries indicate that by the Early Cretaceous both enantiornithine and ornithurine birds had already radiated significantly. The flight structures of Yanornis and Yixianornis are hardly distinguishable from those of modern birds; however, both retain a few primitive traits such as teeth on the jaws, wing claws and pubic symphysis, which exclude them from being the most recent ancestor of all extant birds.     

中国凹颜叶蜂族研究(膜翅目:叶蜂科)(英文)

本文记述中国凹颜叶蜂亚科凹颜叶蜂族一新属和三新种：细足叶蜂属Anheterusgen．nov．新屋,细足叶蜂Anheterustenuisp．nov．新种,郑氏细足叶蜂Anheteruszhengisp．nov．新种,长齿细足叶蜂Anheterusjangngshanussp．nov．新种。同时报道了中国叶峰科一新记录属科,黑鳞凹颜叶蜂HeterarthruskamtchaticaMalaise．     

中国重科一新属一新种(目:粉亚目)

本文记述重科一新属及一新种。     

中国盘菌目新属和新种及其系统地位

本文描述了产自中国云南省盘菌目Pezizales新属——假地耳属Otideopsis Liu et Cao gen.nov。和新种——云南假地耳O.Yunnanensis Liu et Cao sp.nov.,并对其在盘菌目中的系统地位作了论述。     

中国脉柄叶蜂族 (膜翅目 :蕨叶蜂科 )—— 一新属新种附已知属检索表(英文)

记述了中国膜翅目蕨叶蜂科脉柄叶蜂族一新属新种 :Abusarbideainfuscata ,gen .etsp .nov .新属新种。新属与脉柄叶蜂族其它已知各属的区别为新属的前翅臀室具倾斜的臀横脉 ,中前胸背板前叶后部 2 / 5平坦并具锐利的中脊 ,唇基前缘截型。     

四川秀山早寒武世高肌虫新材料

本文记述了早寒武世沧浪铺阶一高肌虫新属Tanguangbiella(gen.nov.),标本产于川东南秀山溶溪剖面下寒武统天河板组中部。新属以壳体巨大,具纺缍形前腹瘤、准生长线及缘膜构造为特征,其主要特征接近于高肌虫类,而部分特征也和介形类相似,加之标本稀少,故暂置于高肌虫目。     

Large Cretaceous sphenodontian from Patagonia provides insight into lepidosaur evolution in Gondwana

Sphenodontian reptiles successfully radiated during Triassic and Jurassic times, but were driven almost to extinction during the Cretaceous period. The sparse Early Cretaceous record of sphenodontians has been interpreted as reflecting the decline of the group in favour of lizards, their suspected ecological successors. However, recent discoveries in Late Cretaceous beds in Patagonia partially modify this interpretation. Numerous skeletons of a new sphenodontian, Priosphenodon avelasi gen. et sp. nov., were collected from a single locality in the Cenomanian-Turonian Candeleros Formation, where it is more abundant than any other tetrapod group recorded in the quarry (for example, Crocodyliformes, Serpentes, Dinosauria and Mammalia). Adult specimens of Priosphenodon reached one metre in length, larger than any previously known terrestrial sphenodontian. Here we propose, using available evidence, that sphenodontians were not a minor component of the Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems of South America, and that their ecological replacement by squamates was delayed until the early Tertiary. The new discovery helps to bridge the considerable gap in the fossil record (around 120 million years) that separates the Early Cretaceous sphenodontians from their living relatives (Sphenodon).     

First ceratopsid dinosaur from China and its biogeographical implications

Ceratopsid dinosaurs represent one of the best known dinosaur groups in the Late Cretaceous, and their unquestionable fossil re-cords are exclusively restricted to western North America.Here we report a new ceratopsid dinosaur, Sinoceratops zhuchengensis gen.et sp.nov., from the Upper Cretaceous Wangshi Group of Zhucheng, Shandong Province, China.Cladistic analysis places this new taxon as the only known ceratopsid from outside North America, in a basal position within the Centrosaurinae.It is con-siderably...     

Caradocian期三叶虫—新属Paratzuchiatocnemis，并讨论其分类位置问题

本文描述了采自湘西北奥陶纪 Caradocian 期的三叶虫新属——Paratzuchiatocnemis(gen.nov.)(副自家虫),并进一步讨论此新属的特征与自家虫属(Tzuchiatocnemis),瘤肋虫属(Hammatocnemis)、卵形头虫属(Ovalocephalus)的异同及它们的相互关系与归属问题,认为宜将 Ovalocephalus、Tzuchiatocnemis 与 Paratzuchiatocnemis 三属划归为新亚科——卵头虫亚科〔Ovalocephanae(subfam.nov.)〕.