Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology最新文献

{"title":"A review of monotreme (Monotremata) evolution","authors":"T. Flannery, T. Rich, P. Vickers-Rich, T. Ziegler, E. G. Veatch, K. Helgen","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2022.2025900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2022.2025900","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Advances in dating and systematics have prompted a revision of monotreme evolution to refine the timing of adaptative trends affecting body size and craniodental morphology. The oldest known monotreme, Teinolophos trusleri, is restricted to uppermost Barremian deposits of the Strzelecki Group in Victoria, Australia. Its body mass is estimated at ∼40 g, making it the smallest known monotreme. Teinolophos trusleri likely possessed an electro-sensitive and/or mechano-sensitive ‘bill’ or ‘beak’, which we suggest evolved for insectivory in seasonally dark Early Cretaceous polar forests. During the early Albian–mid-Cenomanian, monotremes diversified in Australia and evolved body masses greater than 4 kg, becoming amongst the largest Mesozoic mammals. A gap of 35 million years subsequently separates the youngest Mesozoic monotremes from the oldest Cenozoic monotreme, Monotrematum sudamericanum, which is a Paleocene stem ornithorhynchid from southern South America. We also hypothesize that tachyglossids originated in Melanesia, perhaps on the emergent Vogelkop landmass, and then dispersed to Australia during the Pliocene-Pleistocene. Finally, we present a classification of Monotremata to include five families—Teinolophidae fam. nov., Kollikodontidae, Steropodontidae, Ornithorhynchidae, and Tachyglossidae. We also propose a new genus, Murrayglossus gen. nov. for a gigantic Pleistocene echidna from southwestern Western Australia. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E39E2644-DADD-49F4-B2B7-47A25C072B07 Timothy F. Flannery [tim.flannery@textpublishing.com.au], Kristofer M. Helgen [Kris.Helgen@Australian.Museum], Australian Museum, 1 William St Sydney 2000, Australia; Thomas H. Rich [trich@museum.vic.gov.au], Tim Ziegler [tziegler@museum.vic.gov.au], Museums Victoria, PO Box 666, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia; Patricia Vickers-Rich [pat.rich@monash.edu; prich@swin.edu.au], School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia; Swinburne University of Science and Technology, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia; Elizabeth Grace Veatch [elizabeth.veatch@gmail.com], National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013, USA.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131192107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A new Nell Ludbrook Special Review","authors":"B. Kear","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2022.2052558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2022.2052558","url":null,"abstract":"Benjamin P. Kear [ benjamin.kear@em.uu.se ] , Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 752 36, Sweden.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132627669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The first protopsyllidiid (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha) from the Upper Jurassic of Australia","authors":"Yuling Li, Michael Frese, Jun Chen, R. Beattie, Su-Chin Chang","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2021.2018626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2021.2018626","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Protopsyllidiidae are an extinct group of plant-sucking hemipterans that were distributed worldwide. However, Jurassic and Cretaceous taxa have only been reported from the Northern Hemisphere. Here we describe and illustrate a new protopsylliidid, Talbragaropsyllidium averyi gen. et sp. nov., based on 11 well-preserved specimens from the Upper Jurassic Talbragar Fish Bed of New South Wales, Australia. These specimens represent the first Jurassic protopsyllidiid documented from both the Southern Hemisphere and Gondwana, which significantly extends the distributional and stratigraphical range of the family. Yuling Li [yulingli@connect.hku.hk] and Su-Chin Chang [suchin@hku.hk], Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China; Michael Frese [michael.frese@canberra.edu.au], Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Canberra, Bruce, ACT 2601, Australia; Robert Beattie [rgbeattie@bigpond.com], Australian Museum Research Institute, 1 William Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia; Jun Chen [rubiscada@sina.com], Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Linyi University, Shuangling Road, Linyi 276000, China; Yuling Li and Jun Chen also affiliated with State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"389 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124803369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Echinoderms from the upper Miocene Paraná Formation of Argentina","authors":"S. Martínez, L. Pérez, Claudia J. del Río","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2021.1985609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2021.1985609","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123252415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cross-polarized light as an imaging technique for graptolites","authors":"L. Muir, L. McCobb, Yuandong Zhang","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2021.1983652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2021.1983652","url":null,"abstract":"Photography using cross-polarized light is a standard technique for certain types of fossils such as Burgess Shale material; however, the technique has not been used for photography of graptolites. Here we demonstrate that cross-polarized illumination is useful for obtaining high-quality images of graptolites. The technique can also facilitate visualization of fusellar banding, allowing fossils of uncertain affinity to be identified as graptolites. ARTICLE HISTORY Received 22 June 2021 Revised 1 September 2021 Accepted 17 September 2021","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"434 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126100463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The first fossil scorpion from Australia","authors":"R. Bicknell, Patrick M. Smith","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2021.1983874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2021.1983874","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The fossil record of scorpions in Australia is effectively non-existent. This lack of data is striking as there is evidence for other euchelicerates including eurypterids, spiders, and xiphosurids. Here, we describe a euarthropod from the Middle Triassic Hawkesbury Sandstone of Sydney, New South Wales, and attribute it to the Order Scorpiones. Due to lack of other diagnostic features, we are unable to assign the specimen to a higher-order classification. Nonetheless, this discovery confirms that scorpions were present in Australia since at least the mid-Triassic. Russell D. C. Bicknell* [rdcbicknell@gmail.com], Palaeoscience Research Centre, School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, 2351, Australia; Patrick M. Smith [patrick.smith@australian.museum], Palaeontology Department, Australian Museum Research Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, 2010, Australia, and Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, 2109, Australia.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116828055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The first sclerodermine flat wasp (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) from the upper Eocene Rovno amber, Ukraine","authors":"Wesley D. Colombo, E. Perkovsky, D. Vasilenko","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2021.2006311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2021.2006311","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A new extinct bethylid wasp attributable to the subfamily Scleroderminae is described from upper Eocene amber found at the Voronki mine in the Vladimirets District of the northwestern Rovno region, western Ukraine. The distribution of Scleroderminae in tropical and temperate regions is discussed. Three species of Bethylinae, seven species of Epyrinae, and three Pristocerinae have already been described from the same amber-bearing deposits demonstrating the rich diversity of Eocene Bethylidae. Wesley D. Colombo [ wesleycolombo@gmail.com ], Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitoria, ES, Brazil; Evgeny E. Perkovsky [ perkovsk@gmail.com ], Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine; Dmitry V. Vasilenko [ damageplant@mail.ru ] Borissiak Palaeontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia and Cherepovets State University, Cherepovets, Russia.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130869473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An endemic brachiopod faunule from the Aeronian (early Silurian) of South China: palaeobiogeographical and palaeoecological implications","authors":"Bing Huang, Diann-Yih Chen, Jiayu Rong","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2021.2005826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2021.2005826","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract After the Late Ordovician mass extinction, brachiopods recovered and re-radiated during the Aeronian age of the early Silurian. However, a drastic turnover of Ordovician-type to Silurian-type faunas took place. In South China, Aeronian brachiopod faunas are rarely reported and typically of low diversity. Here, we describe an endemic brachiopod faunule from the middle Xiangshuyuan Formation (middle Aeronian) of Yinjiang in northern Guizhou Province, South China. The fossils include five endemic species assigned to five genera. With the exception of Zygospiraella, at least three of these genera are also endemic. The diagnoses of Qianomena and Sinokulumbella are revised based on new specimens. The palaeobiogeographical and palaeoecological implications of the faunule are discussed and interpreted as products of climatic warming and increased habitat heterogeneity during the Aeronian. Bing Huang [ bhuang@nigpas.ac.cn ] and Jia-yu Rong [jyrong@nigpas.ac.cn] , State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China; Di Chen [dichen@nigpas.ac.cn ] China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121163312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The first tetrapod remains from the Upper Jurassic Talbragar Fossil Fish Bed","authors":"Lachlan J. Hart, M. McCurry, Michael Frese, T. Peachey, J. Brocks","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2021.1983651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2021.1983651","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A single tetrapod tooth has been recovered from the Upper Jurassic Talbragar Fossil Fish Bed of New South Wales, Australia. It is the first evidence of a tetrapod to have been found at this locality in over 130 years of excavation. The tooth is likely from a temnospondyl amphibian. Herein, we document the discovery, discuss the potential explanations as to why tetrapod remains are so scarce from this locality and provide hypotheses as to how this tooth came to be preserved. Lachlan J. Hart [ L.Hart@unsw.edu.au ], Earth and Sustainability Science Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES), University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales 2052, Australia; Australian Museum Research Institute, 1 William Street, Sydney, New South Wales 2010, Australia; Matthew R. McCurry [ Matthew.McCurry@Australian.Museum ], Earth and Sustainability Science Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES), University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales 2052, Australia; Australian Museum Research Institute, 1 William Street, Sydney, New South Wales 2010, Australia; Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA; Michael Frese [ Michael.Frese@canberra.edu.au ], Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia; Australian Museum Research Institute, 1 William Street, Sydney, New South Wales 2010, Australia; Thomas J. Peachey [ Thomas.Peachey@Australian.Museum ], Australian Museum Research Institute, 1 William Street, Sydney, New South Wales 2010, Australia; Jochen Brocks [ Jochen.Brocks@anu.edu.au ], Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127191551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In-place operculum demonstrates that the Middle Cambrian Protowenella is a hyolith and not a mollusc","authors":"J. S. Peel","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2021.2004225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2021.2004225","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Protowenella is an early–middle Cambrian, isostrophically coiled, calcareous microfossil originally described from the middle Cambrian (Miaolingian) of Australia; it has been referred previously to the molluscan classes Monoplacophora, Helcionelloida or Gastropoda. A unique specimen from the Henson Gletscher Formation (Miaolingian Series, Wuliuan Stage) of North Greenland has a bilaterally symmetrical operculum preserved in place within the shell aperture. Paired cardinal processes and clavicles on the inner side of the operculum indicate that Protowenella was a hyolith morphologically close to the orthothecid Conotheca. Protowenella is transferred from Mollusca to Hyolitha, Order Orthothecida, Family Protowenellidae nov., representing a novel morphological departure from the generally slender cones of other hyoliths. John S. Peel [ john.peel@pal.uu.se ], Department of Earth Sciences (Palaeobiology), Uppsala University, Villavägen 16, SE-75236, Uppsala, Sweden.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133568200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}