Suturovagina intermedia (Cheirolepidiaceae) from the Lower Cretaceous Dalazi Formation of Wangqing, Northeast China: Cuticle ultrastructure and palaeoenvironmental insights

2018 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 80-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Ju Yang ◽  
Gaëtan Guignard ◽  
Zhi-Yan Zhou ◽  
Qing Xu
2013 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund A. Jarzembowski ◽  
Evgeny V. Yan ◽  
Bo Wang ◽  
Haichun Zhang

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenyang Cai ◽  
Diying Huang

A remarkable oxyteline rove beetle species, Anotylus archaicus Yue, Makranczy & Ren, 2012, has recently been described based on several exquisitely preserved fossil impressions from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning, northeast China. Based on our two new specimens and a comprehensive comparison with extant Anotylus species, we here suggest that all the previously-reported and new specimens, bearing separated gular sutures, sub-contiguous mesocoxae, 5-segmented metatarsi, short and poorly-sclerotized abdominal segment II, and abdominal segments III–VII each with one pair of paratergites, represent a new genus and belong to the basal oxyteline tribe Euphaniini rather than Oxytelini. In addition, it was suggested as the earliest fossil rove beetle demonstrating sexual dimorphism, the male with strong projections of the anterior pronotal angles. However, we suggest that the sexual dimorphism is probably misinterpreted, since the so-called projections can also be found in a female specimen. The projections actually formed when the anterior pronotal margin broke, a condition when the head is retracted into the pronotum.


Author(s):  
Penglin Zhang ◽  
Qingtao Meng ◽  
David Misch ◽  
Reinhard F. Sachsenhofer ◽  
Zhaojun Liu ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 579-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Zhang ◽  
Haichun Zhang ◽  
Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn ◽  
Edmund A. Jarzembowski

2018 ◽  
Vol 191 ◽  
pp. 7-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Song ◽  
Zhaojun Liu ◽  
Doris Gross ◽  
Qingtao Meng ◽  
Yinbo Xu ◽  
...  

Fossil Record ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. M. Unwin ◽  
J. Lü ◽  
N. N. Bakhurina

A reassessment of the systematic relationships of pterosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning Province, China, shows that <i>Dendrorhynchoides</i> should be reassigned to the Anurognathidae (“Rhamphorhynchoidea”) and that <i>Eosipterus</i> possibly belongs within Ctenochasmatidae (Pterodactyloidea). These pterosaurs formed an integral part of a diverse community that inhabited lowland terrestrial environments in the region of northeast China in the Early Cretaceous. A new compilation of data for the Lower Cretaceous hints at a broad differentiation between pterosaurs that lived in continental habitats (anurognathids, ctenochasmatoids, dsungaripteroids) and those that frequented marine environments (ornithocheiroids). Moreover, there is evidence of further differentiation within continental habitats, between pterosaurs living in lowland and coastal regions (anurognathids. ctenochasmatoids) and those living in more inland environments (dsungaripteroids). The temporal and geographical range extensions for high rank taxa that are implied by the Yixian pterosaurs further emphasise the incompleteness and unevenness of the pterosaur fossil record and its unreliability for biostratigraphic zonation. <br><br> Eine Neubewertung der systematischen Stellung der Flugsaurier von der unterkretazischen Yixian-Formation der Provinz Liaoning, China, zeigt, dass <i>Dendrorhynchoides</i> den Anurognathiden (“Rhamphorhynchoidea”) zugeordnet werden kann und dass <i>Eosipterus</i> vermutlich zu den Ctenochasmatiden (Pterodactyloidea) gehört. Diese beiden Flugsaurier bilden einen integralen Bestandteil einer diversen Fauna, die in der Unteren Kreide ein terrestrisches Flachland-Ökosystem im Nordosten Chinas bewohnte. Fasst man die für die Untere Kreide verfügbaren Daten zusammen, so zeigt sich eine weitgehende Differenzierung zwischen Flugsauriern, die überwiegend in kontinentalen Ökosystemen lebten (Anurognathidae, Ctenochasmatoidea, Dsungaripteroidea) und jenen, die auch oft in marinen Bereichen auftreten (Ornithocheiroidea). Darüber hinaus gibt es auch Hinweise auf eine Differenzierung innerhalb der kontinentalen Habitate, zwischen Pterosauriern, die sich in den Ebenen und küstennahen Bereichen aufhielten (Anurognathidae, Ctenochasmatoidea) und den Bewohnern von mehr küstenfernen Ökosystemen (Dsungaripteroidea). Die von den Taxa der Yixian-Formation angezeigte Erweiterung der stratigraphischen und geographischen Reichweite für Taxa höheren Ranges unterstreichen die Unvollständigkeit und Unausgewogenheit des Fossilberichtes der Flugsaurier und seine Unzulänglichkeit für biostratigraphische Zonierungen. <br><br> doi:<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mmng.20000030109" target="_blank">10.1002/mmng.20000030109</a>


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