中国首次发现奥陶纪无颌纲古鱼类动物群

    The discovery of Ordovician Agnatha palaeo-fishes fauna in China

    • 摘要: 2011年5~6月在新疆巴楚县一间房地区南1沟剖面上奥陶统恰尔巴克组首次发现百余件古鱼类化石。根据头甲具有一对眶孔和骨甲具有骨质层结构,将它们确定为无颌纲,并建立了新亚纲1个,新目2个,新科2个,新属新种各4个。鱼类化石赋存于熊剑飞等(2006)在该剖面所作的牙形石Baltoniodus alobatus带中,时代属于晚奥陶世艾家山期早期。根据外部形态特征将这一古鱼类化石群命名为秀丽巴楚鱼-宽吻古盔甲鱼(Bachuiaspis elegans-Palaeogaleaspis platyrostrastus Fauna)动物群。该化石动物群是中国脊椎动物生物证据确凿的记录,也是世界上晚奥陶世早期中国所特有的脊椎动物群。这批化石新材料的发现不仅在古鱼类发生和演化史上,而且在古脊椎动物地理分区和古构造分区上均具有重要的科学价值和研究意义。

       

      Abstract: In this year, the authors collected numerous the Ordovician pallaeofishes fossils from the Qiaerbake Formation (i.e.The Tumuxiuke Formation) in Bachu Couty, Xinjiang. China. According to possessing a pair of orbite opening and bones structure on the head dermal, this fossils belong to the Agnatha and include the Bachuiaspida (Subclass nov.), Bachuiaspidida (Order nov.), Palaeogaleaspidida(Order nov.), Bachuiaspididae (Family nov.), Palaeogaleaspidida (Family nov.) and four new genera, new species: Bachuiaspis elegans, Brevicaraspis yijianfangensis, Palaeogaleaspis platyrostrastus and Cyclocephalaspis haoae. The age of present fossils is determined in the Late Ordovician by the conodonts zone-Baltoniodus alobatus. These are abundant fossils as complete individual bodies presented. In this paper, this agnathans fossils group is named Bachuiaspis elegans- Palaeogaleaspis platyrostrastus fauna by the authors. At present, the researches of the agnathans fossils are preliminary, the biology, biostratigraphy, sedimentary-environment and the division of the palaeobiogeographic regions would be gradually and deeply. This agnathans fossils fauna should be of important scientific values for the origins, evolutionary of the vertebrates and the vertebrate biogeography, division of the palaeotectonic region, which would be a conclusive record of biological evidence for vertebrate in China and a special vertebrate fauna of China in the world in the early Late Ordovician.

       

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