辽西首次发现保存毛发和软件的中生代哺乳动物化石

    Discovery of a Mesozoic fossil mammal with hair and soft tissue in western Liaoning,China

    • 摘要: 中国辽西地区素以产出丰富多彩的中生代热河生物群闻名于世。特别是近几年来,该区大量长羽毛的恐龙、原始鸟类、原始哺乳类和被子植物化石的发现更加引起了国际科学界的极大关注。1997年秋,作者在辽宁北票四合屯地区发现了一块完整的保存有毛发和软体印痕的对齿兽类哺乳动物化石。身体保存有手发和软体印痕的中生代哺乳动物化石在世界上也是罕见的。对对于研究对齿兽形态结构、生物习性、系统关系等方面均具有重要意义。

       

      Abstract: Western Liaoning,China,is world-renowned for the Mesozoic Jehol biota,especially for yield-ing many feathered dinosaurs,primitive birds,mammals and fossil angiosperms .In autumn of 1997,the author found a complete specimen of a symmetrodont mammal with well-preserved hair and soft tissue from the basal part of the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation in the Sihetun area,Beipiao City,western Liaoning.It is very significant for our understanding the morphology,osteology,phylogeny and life habits of Mesozoic symmetrodont mammals.

       

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