Description and Phylogenetic Position of Dinosaur Eggshells from the Luanchuan Area of Western Henan Province, China     

Kohei TANAKA  Lü Junchang  Yoshitsugu KOBAYASHI  Darla K. ZELENITSKY  XU Li  JIA Songhai  QIN Shuang  TANG Min’an 《《地质学报》英文版》2011,85(1):66-74

Here, we examine 145 dinosaur eggshells from a new fossil locality in the Qiupa Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of the Luanchuan area in western Henan Province, China. The eggshells display elongatoolithid macro- and microstructures, including ridges and nodes on the outer surface, two ultrastructural layers, and an undulatory boundary between the mammillary and continuous layers. A phylogenic analysis shows that the Luanchuan eggshells belong to the ooclade Elongatoolithidae. Within Elongatoolithidae, the thickness ratio of the mammillary layer to the entire eggshell, and the porosity of the Luanchuan eggshells are comparable to the oogenera Macroolithus and Elongatoolithus. There is no direct evidence for the taxonomic identity of the Luanchuan eggshells; however, they were likely laid by oviraptorids based on their phylogenetic position and their similarities with known oviraptorid eggs.  相似文献   

新疆蒙库地区那林卡拉组地质特征简述     

孙成旺  叶征宇  徐争强 《四川地质学报》2011,(4):383-385

下石炭统那林卡拉组中化石含量相当丰富,地层中沉积岩韵律也较为清晰,那林卡拉组位于新疆蒙库地区,通过对该地层的工作及资料收集以及对该组的地质特征的一些简单的认识来简述该地层的地质特征.  相似文献   

西藏改则地区班公湖-怒江结合带内上三叠统 的发现及其地质意义     

马德胜  熊兴国  蒋开源  李月森  龙胜清  曾禹人 《地质通报》2011,30(11):1701-1705

三叠系在班公湖-怒江结合带两侧仅有少量露头。早三叠世是怒江洋盆初始演化的开始,由于晚二叠世-早三叠 世大规模的海退持续和地壳的抬升,地层遭受剥蚀,整个班公湖-怒江结合带内缺乏完整的三叠系地层系统,对怒江 洋的演化缺乏完整的物质记录。此次有古生物化石依据的上三叠统的发现,为探讨洋盆的演化提供了较好的依据,也 为区域地层对比、地层格架建立、古环境分析等提供了基础资料。  相似文献   

山东诸城晚白垩世古地震事件与恐龙化石埋藏   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

何碧竹  乔秀夫  田洪水  陈树清  张艳霞 《古地理学报》2011,13(6):615-626

在山东诸城库沟、龙骨涧、西见屯集群恐龙化石埋藏层——上白垩统王氏群辛格庄组与红土崖组中,发现存在脆性、塑性及液化等多种类型的软沉积物变形构造,主要包括负载构造、球一枕构造、挤入构造(火焰构造)、液化卷曲变形、液化脉状构造、混插沉积构造及地震断裂等典型的粗碎屑沉积物形成的古地震记录.多层的软沉积物变形构造及未变形沉积层间...  相似文献   

Rugose corals from the Upper Ordovician Sholeshook Limestone of southwest Wales with an assessment of the coral affinities and biofacies     

C. Baars 《Geological Journal》2013,48(6):603-619

Limestone horizons of Upper Ordovician (Katian) age in southwest Wales contain diverse fossil faunas including rugose corals. The existence of Ordovician Rugosa in Wales was first reported by Murchison in the 1830s, but since then hardly any specimens have been documented systematically until this present study. Newly collected material from the area around Llanddowror (Carmarthenshire) has now confirmed the diversity of rugose corals in the Sholeshook Limestone (Katian age), an arenaceous limestone originating from the shelf edge of the palaeocontinent Avalonia. The majority of the specimens are preserved as moulds. This means that in many instances preservation of the fossils was insufficient for specific identification; nevertheless, it was possible to document a diverse rugose coral fauna, including Helicelasma, probable Grewingkia and Kenophyllum, and a potential early mucophyllid. While associated with considerable difficulties, as some diagnostic features of Rugosa are not visible in moulds, it is demonstrated here that the work with such specimens can result in faunal information which would otherwise be unobtainable. An assemblage of rugose and tabulate corals in the Sholeshook Limestone can be differentiated from a similar assemblage in the neighbouring Robeston Wathen Limestone which has a slightly different lithology. The fauna has strong similarities with other Avalonian (Irish, English, Belgian) as well as Baltic (Estonian and Norwegian) rugose coral faunas. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

The age of the Cuddapah and Kurnool systems,southern India     

A. R. Crawford  W. Compston 《Australian Journal of Earth Sciences》2013,60(4):453-464

In southern India the older Precambrian is overlain unconformably in the Cuddapah Basin by the Cuddapah and Kurnool Systems. The former is tilted and unmetamorphosed in the west but eastwards becomes strongly folded and metamorphosed. It contains lavas and sills, particularly in the lower two groups, is intruded by dolerites and at Chelima by diatremes of kimberlitic affinities related to those intruding the older gneisses west of the Cuddapah Basin in the Wajrakarur area. The Kurnool System lacks any igneous rocks; its basal conglomerate is diamondi‐ferous.

Rb‐Sr dating of lava samples from the lowest group of the Cuddapah System shows that the age of the base of the system may be as great as 1,700 m.y. Together with data for a granite which intrudes probable Cuddapah rocks near the disturbed eastern margin of the basin the data imply that the base is unlikely to be younger than 1,555 m.y. Metamorphism affected some lavas at about 1,360 m.y. The diatremes have two ages of intrusion, about 1,225 m.y. and 1,140 m.y., the latter being the age of the Majhgawan pipe near Panna in northern India. Pre‐Kurnool dolerites have an age of 980 ±110 m.y.

The lavas and dolerites show a range of initial ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Rb ratios from about 0.704 to 0.708 and possibly 0.712.

The age data suggest that no simple correlation can be made with other Precambrian sequences in northern peninsular India. Deposition of the Cuddapah System appears to have started well before the start of the deposition of the Vindhyan System, while the Kurnool System is coeval with only part of the Upper Vindhyan. The data also suggest that present interpretations of the structural development of the Cuddapah Basin may need some revision.  相似文献   

内蒙古西乌旗下二叠统寿山沟组海底扇的发现及意义   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

公繁浩  黄欣  郑月娟  陈树旺 《地质与资源》2013,22(6):478-483

西乌珠穆沁旗地区下二叠统寿山沟组沉积环境的认识尚缺乏确凿证据.对塔宾庙林场剖面寿山沟组的研究认为是一套海相碎屑岩沉积,岩石类型以长石岩屑砂岩为主,发育粒序层理和平行层理,属于鲍马序列中的A和B段,并伴有Zoophycos相遗迹化石组合,属于海底扇沉积.根据岩石类型、砂岩的单层厚度、砂岩和泥岩的比值,划分出内扇、中扇、外扇3个亚相,内扇亚相发育水道砾岩,外扇亚相发育复理石相遗迹化石.该区寿山沟组厚层暗色泥岩,是良好的烃源岩,而扇体可以作为有效的储层,具有很好的油气勘探前景.  相似文献   

柴达木盆地东北缘中新统遗迹化石组合及其沉积环境     

高正海  李瑞云  王秋军  董重  闫德飞  孙柏年 《沉积学报》2013,31(3):413-420

研究遗迹化石对于恢复古生物活动方式、习性和古环境具有重要意义。在柴达木盆地东北缘双湖地区中新统发现了遗迹化石。经鉴定,研究区的遗迹化石主要包括2大类4属4种:居住迹Palaeopycus heberti（赫伯特古藻迹）,Skolithos verticalis（垂直石针迹）;进食迹Scoyenia gracilis（纤细斯柯茵迹）和Taenidium satanassi（箱形条带迹）。根据研究区的遗迹化石分布及沉积环境分析,该地可划分出一个遗迹组合:Scoyenia-Taenidium-Skolithos遗迹组合, 代表了潮湿气候条件下的浅湖环境。当前化石的发现填补了柴达木盆地东北缘双湖地区中新世遗迹化石研究的空白。  相似文献   

Fish Fossil Reflecting Low, Warm, and Wet Environment During Late Oligocene     

WANG Ning  WU Feixiang 《《地质学报》英文版》2013,87(Z1):871-872

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古风化壳沉积型铝土矿物探异常模式及系列方案①     

樊金生  郭文波  王美丁  王晖 《矿产与地质》2013,(1):52-55

文章从本区地质成矿规律、物性特征等入手,通过对试验结果的对比分析,论述了古风化壳沉积型铝土矿找矿工作中物探方法的可行性和局限性,提出古风化壳沉积型铝土矿物探工作的系列方案和地球物理异常模式。  相似文献