原长翅蝎蛉亚目化石在中国陕西铜川地区首次发现.pdfVIP

维普资讯 第 25卷第 5期 地 质 通 报 V01．25．NO．5 M av，2006 2006年 5月 GEO LO GICAL BULLETIN O F CHINA Firstdiscovery offossilProtomecoptera in theTongchuan region，Shaanxi，China 原长翅蝎蛉亚 目化石在中国陕西铜川地区首次发现 HONG You—chong (Y．G．HONG) 洪友崇 BeijingMuseum ofNaturalHistory，Beijing100050，China 北京 自然博物馆 ，北京 100050 HongY C．FirstdiscoveryoffossilProtomecopteraintheTongchuanregion，Shaanxi，China．GeologicalBulletinof China，2006，25(5)：560—564 Abstract：ThesuborderProtomecopterawaserected by Tillyard in 1917 rfom Australian LateTriassic srta~．However， Car- penter (1992) consideredthatProtomecopteramightbelongtOthesuborderEumecoptera． Recentlytwonew fossligenera， Glyptochorsita martyrtovae gen．etsp．nov．and Phyllochorista orntsi gen．etsp．nov．，have been discovered by the author forthefirsttime in the M iddle TriassicTongchuan Formation ofShaanxiProvince， China， and areassigned tO the family Tomiochoristidae O．Martynova， 1958 ofthissuborder．Thusthe afmily Tomiochoristidae isstratigraphically extended tO the highesthorizon，i．e．from the Early Penman tO M iddleTriassic，spanning more than 50 M a．Thediscovery ofthenew gen— era and speciesin China fillsin thegapsin thefield ofprotomecopterid ofChinanad SO has certain referencevalue forthe study oftheevolutionofthisfamily (Tomiochoristidae)rfom theLatePaleozoictOEarlyMesozoic．Thefossilswerecollected rfom grayish green mudstone——shalein the upperpartofthe LowerM emberofthe M iddle Triassic Tongchuan Formation in Tongchuan． Thenew generaand new speciesare ancw memberofthe Tongchuan Entomassemblage ofthe ShaanxiEnto— mofauna (afosslirgoupoftheMidTriassicShaanxiafunaorShaanxibiota)andtheirage isequivalenttO theLa