云南罗平中三叠世意外裸鱼的再研究.PDFVIP

511 pp. 1 20131 VERTEBRATA PALASIATICA fi gs. 18 Re-study on Gymnoichthys inopinatus from Middle Triassic of Luoping, Yunnan, China TAN Kai1,2,3JIN Fan1 (1 Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origin of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100044 kenquark@163.com) (2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049) (3 The Geological Museum of China Beijing 100034) Abstract Gymnoichthys inopinatus was initially described by Tintori et al. in 2010, and regarded as a basal neopterygian. According to the new material of the Middle Triassic Guanling Formation discovered in Dawazi Village, Luoping County, Yunnan Province, China, we redescribed G. inopinatus, and re-identifi ed its systematic position. G. inopinatus has only one supramaxilla and its symplectic is likely jointed with the articular, which are the identifying characters of Halecomorphi. Morever, G. inopinatus has no scales, its vertebral centra are not ossifi ed, and the structure and relationship of the neural arches and neural spines, as well as the shape of teeth and ural haemal spines in G. inopinatus are quite like that of the caturoids. Hence, it is suggested to consider G. inopinatus as a basal form of the superfamily Caturoidea. Previously, caturoids were only discovered in the Jurassic of Europe and North America, and its recognized forms included Liodesmus , the only genera of the family Liodesmidae, and Caturus and Amblysemius of the family Caturidae. Gymnoichthys inopinatus is not only the fi rst caturoid found in China, but also the earliest caturoid in the world, which is 40 million years earlier than the European and North American caturoids. K