Sphinctozoan sponges from the Permian reefs of South China

Middle and Late Permian sphinctozoan sponges described here are from the Middle Permian Maokou and the Upper Permian Wujiaping and Changxing Formations. Most are from near Xiangbo, northwestern Guangxi, but a few are from Upper Permain patch reefs from Laolongdong in eastern Sichuan. The new genera, the porateImbricatocoeliaand the aporateGlomocystospongia, are described, the latter as the type genus for the new family Glomocystospongiidae. New species described includeAmblysiphonella specialis, Amblysiphonella spinosa, Amblysiphonellasp. A,Amblysiphonellasp. B,Colospongia maxima, Colospongiasp. A,Imbricatocoelia elongata, I. irregulara, I. obconica, I. paucipora, Neoguadalupia explanata, Subascosymplegma?paracatenulata, Rhabdactinia depressa, R. irregulara, R. squamula, Salzburgia nana, Glomocystospongia gracilis, Sollasia absita, andS. spheroida. New occurrences ofAmblysiphonella merlai? Parona, 1933,Lichuanospongia typicaZhang, 1983,Polycystocoelia huajiapingensisZhang, 1983,Intrasporeocoelia hubeiensisFan and Zhang, 1985,Rhabdactinia columnariaYabe and Sugiyama, 1934,Uvanella irregularaOtt, 1967,Stromatocoelia asiaticaZhang and Fan (in Fan and Zhang, 1985), andTebagathalamia cylindricumSenowbari-Daryan and Rigby, 1988, are reported. The described assemblage represents the most diverse Permian sphinctozoan sponge fauna known from Asia.

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“Hydrozoa” from Middle and Upper Permian reefs of South China

Journal of Paleontology ◽

10.1017/s0022336000020199 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 65 (1) ◽

pp. 45-68 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Fan Jiasong ◽

J. Keith Rigby ◽

Zhang Wei

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

South China ◽

Southern China ◽

Upper Permian ◽

New Genera ◽

Frame Building ◽

Upper Paleozoic ◽

Middle And Upper Permian ◽

Eastern Sichuan ◽

Western Hubei

Abundant “hydrozoans” are important frame-building and accessory organisms in Middle and Upper Permian reefs of southern China, particularly in western Hubei, eastern Sichuan, eastern Yunnan, and northwestern Guangxi. The new genera Radiotrabeculopora, Lichuanopora, and Pseudopalaeoaplysina are described, as are the new species Disjectopora beipeiensis, D. irregulara, Radiotrabeculopora xiangoboensis, R. maokoui, R. elegans, R. reticulata, R. astrorhiza, Balatonia robusta, Lichuanopora bancaoensis, L.(?) regulara, Pseudopalaeoaplysina sinensis, and P. major. The assemblage represents one of the most diverse upper Paleozoic “hydrozoan” assemblages known.

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Middle Permian (Roadian) gastropods from the Khao Khad Formation, Central Thailand: Implications for palaeogeography of the Indochina Terrane

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4766.1.1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4766 (1) ◽

pp. 1-47 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

CHATCHALERM KETWETSURIYA ◽

BARAN KARAPUNAR ◽

THASINEE CHAROENTITIRAT ◽

ALEXANDER NÜTZEL

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Shallow Water ◽

South China ◽

New Genus ◽

Middle Permian ◽

Late Permian ◽

Gastropod Species ◽

Late Palaeozoic ◽

Central Thailand

A new Permian gastropod assemblage from the Roadian (Middle Permian) Khao Khad Formation, Saraburi Group (Lopburi Province, Central Thailand) which is part of the Indochina Terrane, has yielded one of the most diverse Permian gastropod faunas known from Thailand. A total of 44 gastropod species belonging to 30 genera are described herein, including thirteen new species and one new genus. The new genus is Altotomaria. The new species are Bellerophon erawanensis, Biarmeaspira mazaevi, Apachella thailandensis, Gosseletina microstriata, Worthenia humiligrada, Altotomaria reticulata, Yunnania inflata, Trachydomia suwanneeae, Trachyspira eleganta, Heterosubulites longusapertura, Platyzona gradata, Trypanocochlea lopburiensis and Streptacis? khaokhadensis. Most of the species in the studied assemblage represent vetigastropods (35.6%) and caenogastropods (26.7%) and most of the species belong to Late Palaeozoic cosmopolitan genera. The studied faunas come from shallow water carbonates that are rich in fusulinids, followed by gastropods, ostracods, bivalves and brachiopods. The gastropod assemblage from the Khao Khad Formation shares no species with the gastropod assemblages from other Permian formations in Thailand, the Tak Fa Limestone and the Ratburi Limestone. However, it is similar to the Late Permian gastropod faunas from South China of the Palaeo-Tethys, therefore it suggests that the Indochina Terrane was not located far from South China.

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Foraminifers and algae from the Khuff Formation (late Middle Permian-Early Triassic) of central Saudi Arabia

GeoArabia ◽

10.2113/geoarabia1004137 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 137-186 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Daniel Vachard ◽

Jérémie Gaillot ◽

Denis Vaslet ◽

Yves-Michel Le Nindre

Keyword(s):

Saudi Arabia ◽

New Species ◽

South China ◽

New Age ◽

Middle Permian ◽

Early Triassic ◽

Late Permian ◽

Foraminiferal Assemblage ◽

Smaller Foraminifers ◽

One New Species

ABSTRACT Algae and smaller foraminifers of the eponymous Khuff Formation (Saudi Arabia) principally comprise Permocalculus, biseriamminids, hemigordiids and lagenids. Due to the end-Capitanian crisis (Late/Middle Permian boundary) and the regional palaeoecology, fusulinids are rare and only represented by Nankinella sp. and Eostaffella? sp. Palaeofusulinids are completely lacking. New age data shows that these foraminifers correspond to the complete Lopingian (Late Permian) as indicated by several species of Paradagmarita. The position of the Triassic/Permian Boundary is approximately characterised, but requires more accurate studies. Forty-three taxa were identified, mostly in open nomenclature. One new species is described: Glomospirella? linae n. sp. The foraminiferal assemblage is correlated with several associations in Iran, Turkey, Transcaucasia and south China.

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Three new species, two new genera, and new family Biphragmosagittidae (Сhaetognatha) from Southwest Pacific Ocean

Zoosystematica Rossica ◽

10.31610/zsr/2011.20.1.161 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 161-173

Author(s):

A.P. Kassatkina

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Type Species ◽

Morphological Characters ◽

The Body ◽

New Order ◽

New Genera ◽

New Family ◽

The Family ◽

Three New Species

Resuming published and own data, a revision of classification of Chaetognatha is presented. The family Sagittidae Claus & Grobben, 1905 is given a rank of subclass, Sagittiones, characterised, in particular, by the presence of two pairs of sac-like gelatinous structures or two pairs of fins. Besides the order Aphragmophora Tokioka, 1965, it contains the new order Biphragmosagittiformes ord. nov., which is a unique group of Chaetognatha with an unusual combination of morphological characters: the transverse muscles present in both the trunk and the tail sections of the body; the seminal vesicles simple, without internal complex compartments; the presence of two pairs of lateral fins. The only family assigned to the new order, Biphragmosagittidae fam. nov., contains two genera. Diagnoses of the two new genera, Biphragmosagitta gen. nov. (type species B. tarasovi sp. nov. and B. angusticephala sp. nov.) and Biphragmofastigata gen. nov. (type species B. fastigata sp. nov.), detailed descriptions and pictures of the three new species are presented.

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Memoirs: On Some Remarkable New Monticellia-Like and Other Cestodes from Sudanese Siluroids

Journal of Cell Science ◽

10.1242/jcs.s2-69.276.703 ◽

1925 ◽

Vol s2-69 (276) ◽

pp. 703-729

Author(s):

W. N. F. WOODLAND

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Taenia Solium ◽

Broad Band ◽

The Other ◽

Taenia Saginata ◽

New Genera ◽

The Third ◽

New Family ◽

Taxonomic Feature ◽

A New Species

1. Those species of Proteocephalid Cestodes in which the testes are situated in the cortex may be described as of the Monticellia type. Of this type there are three conditions : (a) the Monticellia condition in which the testes, uterus, ovary, and vitellaria are all situated in the cortex; (b) the Rudolphiella condition in which the testes and vitellaria alone are in the cortex, the other organs being entirely or almost entirely in the medulla ; and (c) the Marsypocephalus condition in which the testes alone are in the cortex, all other organs being medullary. Fuhrmann's genus Goezeella is synonymous with Monticellia if we ignore the characters of the scolex as features of generic value. 2. The anatomy of two species of Marsypocephalus is described: Marsypocephalus rectangulus Wedl, 1862, and Marsypocephalus heterobranchus, n.sp., from Nile Siluroid fishes. 3. It is concluded that the cortical situation of the testes and other organs is a taxonomic feature of generic value only (as in Pseudophyllidea in the case of the vitellaria) and La Rue's new family of the Monticellidae, created to include Monticellia-like forms, is not accepted. Monticellia, Rudolphiella, and Marsypocephalus are thus regarded as new genera in the Proteocephalidae. 4. The facts that the ‘Corallobothrium’ type of scolex is found in all of the three genera Monticellia (as amended by me and including ‘Goezeella’ siluri, Fuhrmann), Rudolphiella, and Proteocephalus (as amended by me and including ‘Corallobothrium’ solidum, Fritsch), and that in the Caryophyllaeidae, Bothriocephalidae, and Cyclophyllidea (cf. e.g. Taenia solium and Taenia saginata) minor scolex characters are evidently only features of specific value, compel us to delete such genera as Corallobothrium, Choanoscolex, Acanthotaenia, and my own recent genus Gangesia and to regard them as synonyms of Proteocephalus (La Rue's genus ‘Ophiotaenia’, syn. ‘Crepidobothrium’, not being accepted). Fuhrmann's Goezeella siluri becomes Monticellia siluri, and Fritach's Corallobothrium solidum becomes Proteocephalus solidus. The genera of the Proteocephalidae are thus four in number: Proteocephalus , Monticellia, Rudolphiella , and Marsypocep, halus, and these are formally or informally redefined. The two species of Marsypocephalus are diagnosed. 5. The ‘Taenia malopteruri’ of Fritsch, 1886, is not of the Monticellia type, as suggested by La Rue. Its structure is of the usual Proteocephalid type, save that the scolex possesses a rostellum and a broad band of hooklets and is covered with spinelets. It is renamed Proteocephalus malopteruri. 6. A new species of Clestobothrium--Clestobothrium clarias, from Clarias anguillaris Günth-is described. It is of interest, not only as being the third (second ?) species known of the genus, but because it affords one more illustration of the fact that the characters of the scolex cannot be used for diagnoses of genera. For this reason also, Lönnberg's genus Ptychobothrium (1889) becomes synonymous with Diesing's genus Polyonchobothrium (1884).

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New Monoplacophora (Mollusca) from Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician of Missouri

Journal of Paleontology ◽

10.1017/s0022336000022149 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 60 (3) ◽

pp. 606-626 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Bruce L. Stinchcomb

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

New Genus ◽

New Genera ◽

New Genus And Species ◽

Upper Cambrian ◽

Early Ordovician ◽

New Family ◽

Late Cambrian ◽

Lower Ordovician ◽

A New Species

Fourteen new species and six new genera of the molluscan class Monoplacophora are described from the Upper Cambrian Potosi and Eminence formations and the Lower Ordovician Gasconade Formation of the Ozark Uplift of Missouri and some new biostratigraphic horizons are introduced. A new superfamily, the Hypseloconellacea nom. trans. Knight, 1956, and a new family, the Shelbyoceridae, are named. The genus Proplina is represented by five new species: P. inflatus, P. suttoni from the Cambrian Potosi Formation, P. arcua from the Cambrian Eminence Formation and P. meramecensis and P. sibeliusi from the Lower Ordovician Gasconade Formation. A new genus and species in the subfamily Proplininae, Ozarkplina meramecensis, is described from the Upper Cambrian Eminence Formation. Four new monoplacophoran genera in the superfamily Hypseloconellacea and their species are described, including: Cambrioconus expansus, Orthoconus striatus, Cornuella parva from the Eminence Formation, and Gasconadeoconus ponderosa, G. waynesvillensis, G. expansus from the Gasconade Formation. A new genus in the new family Shelbyoceridae, Archeoconus missourensis, is described from the Eminence Formation and a new species of Shelbyoceras, S. bigpineyensis, is described from the Gasconade Formation.

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Tectonic Evolution of the West Bogeda: Evidences from Zircon U-Pb Geochronology and Geochemistry Proxies, NW China

Minerals ◽

10.3390/min10040341 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 341

Author(s):

Yalong Li ◽

Wei Yue ◽

Xun Yu ◽

Xiangtong Huang ◽

Zongquan Yao ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Tectonic Evolution ◽

Tectonic Setting ◽

Continental Rift ◽

Middle Permian ◽

Upper Permian ◽

Late Permian ◽

Island Arcs ◽

The West ◽

Structural Deformations ◽

Tian Shan

The Bogeda Shan (Mountain) is in southern part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) and well preserved Paleozoic stratigraphy, making it an ideal region to study the tectonic evolution of the CAOB. However, there is a long-standing debate on the tectonic setting and onset uplift of the Bogeda Shan. In this study, we report detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology and whole-rock geochemistry of the Permian sandstone samples, to decipher the provenance and tectonic evolution of the West Bogeda Shan. The Lower-Middle Permian sandstone is characterized by a dominant zircon peak age at 300–400 Ma, similar to the Carboniferous samples, suggesting their provenance inheritance and from North Tian Shan (NTS) and Yili-Central Tian Shan (YCTS). While the zircon record of the Upper Permian sandstone is characterized by two major age peaks at ca. 335 Ma and ca. 455 Ma, indicating the change of provenance after the Middle Permian and indicating the uplift of Bogeda Shan. The initial uplift of Bogeda Shan was also demonstrated by structural deformations and unconformity occurring at the end of Middle Permian. The bulk elemental geochemistry of sedimentary rocks in the West Bogeda Shan suggests the Lower-Middle Permian is mostly greywacke with mafic source dominance, and tectonic setting changed from the continental rift in the Early Permian to post rift in the Middle Permian. The Upper Permian mainly consists of litharenite and sublitharenite with mafic-intermediate provenances formed in continental island arcs. The combined evidences suggest the initial uplift of the Bogeda Shan occurred in the Late Permian, and three stages of mountain building include the continental rift, post-rift extensional depression, and continental arc from the Early, Middle, to Late Permian, respectively.

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Diversity of xerotolerant and xerophilic fungi in honey

IMA Fungus ◽

10.1186/s43008-019-0021-7 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

E. Rodríguez-Andrade ◽

A. M. Stchigel ◽

A. Terrab ◽

J. Guarro ◽

J. F. Cano-Lira

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Honey Bee ◽

New Taxa ◽

Fungal Diversity ◽

New Genera ◽

Fungal Strains ◽

New Family ◽

Two New Species ◽

Three New Species

AbstractFungi can colonize most of the substrata on Earth. Honey, a sugary food produced by bees (and other insects) has been studied little in terms of its fungal diversity. We have surveyed and evaluated the presence of xerotolerant and xerophilic fungi in a set of honey bee samples collected from across Spain. From 84 samples, a total of 104 fungal strains were isolated, and morphologically and phylogenetically characterized. We identified 32 species distributed across 16 genera, most of them belonging to the ascomycetous genera Aspergillus, Bettsia, Candida, Eremascus, Monascus, Oidiodendron, Penicillium, Skoua, Talaromyces and Zygosaccharomyces. As a result of this survey, eight new taxa are proposed: i.e. the new family Helicoarthrosporaceae, two new genera, Helicoarthrosporum and Strongyloarthrosporum in Onygenales; three new species of Eurotiales, Talaromyces affinitatimellis, T. basipetosporus, and T. brunneosporus; and two new species of Myxotrichaceae, Oidiodendron mellicola, and Skoua asexualis.

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Inozoan calcareous Porifera from the Permian reefs in South China

Journal of Paleontology ◽

10.1017/s0022336000036489 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 63 (6) ◽

pp. 778-800 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

J. Keith Rigby ◽

Fan Jiasong ◽

Zhang Wei

Keyword(s):

South China ◽

Growth Form ◽

Carbonate Platform ◽

Upper Permian ◽

General Nature ◽

Late Paleozoic ◽

Changxing Formation ◽

Middle And Upper Permian ◽

Eastern Sichuan

Inozoans are described from patch reefs on the carbonate platform of eastern Sichuan, from the uppermost Permian Laolongdong reefs in the Changxing Formation (Kazanian–Tatarian) at Beipei, northwest of Chongqing, and from Middle and Upper Permian reefs from the Maokou (Kungurian), Wujiaping (Ufimian), and Changxing Formations at Xiangbo, Longlin County, in northwestern Guangxi. Classification of inozoans, particularly late Paleozoic ones, is still in a state of flux, but genera recognized to date can be keyed using the general nature of the spongocoel, canals, and growth form.New genera described are Intratubospongia, Grossotubenella, Cavusonella, and Radicanalospongia. The new species described are Stellispongia radiata, S. minor, Peronidella beipeiensis, P. regulara, P. parva, Intratubospongia typica, I. tenuiperforata, I. multisi-phonata, I. minima, Grossotubenella parallela, Cavusonella caverna, and Radicanalospongia normala. A Corynella that is not identifiable to species and a sphinctozoan-like inozoan(?) sp. A that has a fibrous-appearing internal skeleton but is poorly preserved are also described. Inozoans and other sponges are major frame-builders in the Permian reefs of South China and our fauna is one of the most diverse late Paleozoic assemblages described to date.

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