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15 September 2001, Volume 39 Issue 03

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A NEW GENUS OF GALEASPIDA FROM THE LATE EARLY DEVONIAN OF EASTERN GUANGXI, SOUTH CHINA

WANG Shi-Tao, WANG Jun-Qing, WANG Nan-Zhong, ZHANG Zhen-Xian

2001, 39(03):  157-167. 

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The late Early Devonian vertebrate fossils including antiarchs and polybranchiaspids were collected from Yuantou Valley, Pingle County of Eastem Guangxi. The antiarvh fossils were named Dayaoshania youngi by Wang Shitao in Ritchie et al. (1992), and referred to the Sinolepidae. Dayaoshania has no median ventral plate, similar to Liujingolepis, Xichonolepis and Sinolepis of South China and Grenfellaspis of Australia. In this paper the polybranchiaspid fossils are described, and the Discaspis pinglensis— Dayaoshania youngi Paleocommunity is termed, representing the late Early Devonian Paleocommunity in the Hexian Fomaüon of Guangxi (unnamed Paleocommunity in Wang, 1991).

NOTES ON THE DISCOVERY OF BIRGERIA IN CHINA

JIN Fan

2001, 39(03):  168-176. 

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A NEW SPECIES OF HSISOSUCHUS FROM DASHUNPU,ZIGONG, SICHUAN

GAO Yu-Hui

2001, 39(03):  177-184. 

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A NEW SPECIES OF ADVENIMUS (RODENTIA, MAMMALIA) FROM THE EOCENE OF NORTHERN JUNGGAR BASIN OF XINJIANG, CHINA

MENG Jin, WU Wen-Yu, YE Jie

2001, 39(03):  185-196. 

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A new species of Advenimus, A. ulungurensis sp. nov., is described based on dental specimens collected from Tertiary beds on the south bank of the Ulungur River in northern Junggar Basin of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. These specimens represent the first record of ctenodactyloids in Xinjiang. Correlations with distributions of other species of Advenimus indicate diat the bed yielding the Xinjiang fossils is of probably early Eocene in age.

NEW MATERIALS OF TAPIROID AND RHINOCEROTOID REMAINS (MAMMALIA, PERISSODACTYLA) FROM THE MIDDLE EOCENE OF YUANQU BASIN, CENTRAL CHINA

HUANG Xue-Shi, WANG Jing-Wen

2001, 39(03):  197-203. 

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The paleontologists of IVPP about ten times from 1992 to 1999 and together with colleagues from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh from 1994 to 1997 had made successful investigation in Yuanqu Basin, Central China, resulting in finding a great deal of fine fossils, including Primates, Rodentia and Insectivora. The specimens of Perissodactyla are not well preserved and most of them are isolated teeth. But these fossils not only increase new material of certain old groups (Deperetella depereti, Prohyracodon meridionale, Caenolophus promissus, Sianodon mienchiensis and Sianodon sinensis) but also add some taxa that have been found for the first time in the Basin (Rhodopagus yunnqnensis, Breviodon sp. and Teleolophus cf. T. Mangshanensis). These fossils were found in two localities: Hedi, Yuanqu County, Shanxi Province and Rencun, Mienchi County, Henan Province. The fossil—bearing beds belong to Rencun Member, Hedi Formation of the Middle Eocene.

CRICETID RODENTS FROM MIDDLE BUOCENE QUANTOUGOU FAUNA OF LANZHOU, GANSU

QIU Zhu-Ding

2001, 39(03):  204-214. 

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Four species of cricetid rodents are recognized and described from the upper Xianshuihe Formation of Tunggur age (middle Miocene) at Quantougou, Gansu. Among the cricetids, Ganocricetodon cheni is new. A comparison of the Quantougou assemblage with that of Tunggur reveals some suiking similarities in composition and obvious differences among cricetids, that are temporal, ecological, or both.

LATE MIOCENE-EARLY PLEISTOCENE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE LEIJIAHE AREA, LINGTAI, GANSU

ZHENG Shao-Hua, ZHANG Zhao-Qun

2001, 39(03):  215-228. 

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Since the first discovery of mammalian fossils in 1964 from the Leijiahe area, Lingtai, Gansu, there have been three field teams working there on the "Leijiahe Formation", which developed on the Cretaceous limestone and before accumulation of the Loess. This Formation was thought to be of Pleistocene (Huang et al., 1979), Pliocene (Huang et al., 1993) and Late Miocene to Early Pleistocene (Zheng, 1994) respectively. In 1998— 1999, financed by the NSF we did more detailed biostratigraphic works on three sections, namely, Loc. 93001, 93002 and 72074(4) section (Zheng and Zhang, 2000; Zhang and Zheng, 2000, 2001). The present paper gives synthetic analysis with small mammals from the three sections and comparison with some faunas from North China.