AlcheringaPub Date : 1996-01-01DOI: 10.1080/03115519608619219
I. Nikitin, L. Popov
{"title":"Strophomenid and triplesiid brachiopods from an Upper Ordovician carbonate mound in central Kazakhstan","authors":"I. Nikitin, L. Popov","doi":"10.1080/03115519608619219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115519608619219","url":null,"abstract":"Ten species of strophomenid and triplesiid brachiopods are described from the Late Ordovician (late Caradoc to early Ashgill) Dulankara Regional Stage of Central Kazakhstan. They represent part of a diverse brachiopod assemblage, which was discovered in the top of a carbonate mound in the northern Betpak-Dala Desert. This brachiopod assemblage includes mostly genera not recorded previously from contemporaneous deposits in Kazakhstan, although they may be related to the long-lived lineages which appeared in the area during Llanvirn or Llandeilo. New taxa are: the plectambonitoids Bandaleta plana gen. et sp. nov., Shlyginia perplexa sp. nov., Sortanella quinquecostata gen. et sp. nov., Anoptambonites subcarinatus sp. nov., Anisopleurella ampla sp. nov., Craspedelia roomusoksi sp. nov., and triplesioid Triplesia sortanensis sp. nov.","PeriodicalId":50830,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa","volume":"20 1","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03115519608619219","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59986217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AlcheringaPub Date : 1996-01-01DOI: 10.1080/03115519608619474
P. Taylor
{"title":"Cretaceous bryozoans from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand","authors":"P. Taylor","doi":"10.1080/03115519608619474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115519608619474","url":null,"abstract":"Two bryozoan species have been found in the Kahuitara Tuff (Piripauan-Haumurian Stages; equivalent to Campanian-Maastrichtian) of Pitt Island, in the Chatham Islands, about 900 km east of the South Island of New Zealand. Cretaceous bryozoans are rare in Australasia, and the two species in this paper are the first to be formally described from New Zealand. Both species have thick dendroid colonies but whereas Ceriocava maculata sp. nov. is an unequivocal cerioporine cyclostome, the other species — Chiplonkarina campbelli sp. nov. — is more problematical and is interpreted as an aberrant ‘malacostegan’ cheilostome. Like previously described species of Chiplonkarina, C. campbelli has interzooidal walls with a central crenulated layer, indicating the former presence of an intercalary cuticle of the type found in many cheilostomes but unknown in cyclostomes. The anomalous global biogeographical distribution of bryozoans during the Cretaceous is briefly discussed.","PeriodicalId":50830,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa","volume":"20 1","pages":"315-327"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03115519608619474","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59987124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AlcheringaPub Date : 1996-01-01DOI: 10.1080/03115519608619224
W. Holmes
{"title":"A fossil plant organ with unusual internal structure from the Late Carboniferous of New South Wales","authors":"W. Holmes","doi":"10.1080/03115519608619224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115519608619224","url":null,"abstract":"An unusual plant fossil of unknown affinities is reported from the Late Carboniferous of New South Wales. Burdekinia multiseptata gen. et sp. nov. is known from a straplike organ, externally rather featureless, but characterised by a distinctive internal structure of regular transverse sphenopsid-like partitions which form rectangular sections. These sections are filled with a lattice-work of about six parallel rows of small chambers which resembles the internal structure formed by aerenchyma cells in the leaves of the extant marsh plants in the genus Typha.","PeriodicalId":50830,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa","volume":"20 1","pages":"69-72"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03115519608619224","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59986012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AlcheringaPub Date : 1996-01-01DOI: 10.1080/03115519608619220
P. Vickers-Rich, R. Molnar
{"title":"The foot of a bird from the Eocene Redbank Plains Formation of Queensland, Australia","authors":"P. Vickers-Rich, R. Molnar","doi":"10.1080/03115519608619220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115519608619220","url":null,"abstract":"Impressions of what appear to be pedal digits II and III of a bird have been found in the Eocene Redbank Plains Formation, Brisbane, Queensland. These represent some of the oldest Cainozoic avian fossils from Australia. The broad phalanges and the phalangeal proportions indicate that the Redbank Plains bird foot was from a ground dweller. Paired processes for the flexor tendons on the proximoventral margin of phalanx 1 digit III are absent. Relative proportions of the phalanges and number of phalanges in digits II and III are similar to those of dromornithids. These two characters shared with dromornithids suggest that the Redbank Plains bird may represent the oldest known member of that clade.","PeriodicalId":50830,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa","volume":"20 1","pages":"21-29"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03115519608619220","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59986279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AlcheringaPub Date : 1996-01-01DOI: 10.1080/03115519608619188
P. Kruse
{"title":"Update on the northern Australian Cambrian sponges Rankenella, Jawonya and Wagima","authors":"P. Kruse","doi":"10.1080/03115519608619188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115519608619188","url":null,"abstract":"New material from the Ordian to early Templetonian (early Middle Cambrian) of the Georgina Basin and Daly Basin in northern Australia allows further observations on the anthaspidellid sponge Rankenella mors and the chambered heteractinide sponge Jawonya gurumal respectively. Explanate specimens of R. mors are found to bear closely spaced, rimmed oscules, and the known range of the species is extended from the Ranken Limestone near Soudan to include the Arthur Creek Formation near Ammaroo. Jawonya gurumal from the Tindall Limestone near Claravale is better preserved than type and topotype material, and demonstrates that the genus is two-walled, and not one-walled as originally described. Furthermore, exopore architecture is much more complex than previously envisaged. The co-occurring related genus Wagima is also considered to be two-walled. Rankenella in the Ranken Limestone flourished in a low-energy, shallow subtidal marine environment subject to episodic higher-energy events that generated ooid shoals ...","PeriodicalId":50830,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa","volume":"20 1","pages":"161-178"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03115519608619188","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59985870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AlcheringaPub Date : 1996-01-01DOI: 10.1080/03115519608619192
G. Shi, Fang Zong-jie, N. Archbold
{"title":"An Early Permian brachiopod fauna of Gondwanan affinity from the Baoshan block, western Yunnan, China","authors":"G. Shi, Fang Zong-jie, N. Archbold","doi":"10.1080/03115519608619192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115519608619192","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper describes and illustrates an Early Permian brachiopod fauna collected from two localities from the upper part of the type Dingjiazhai Formation near Youwang, 30 km south of Baoshan in the Baoshan block, western Yunnan, China. The brachiopod fauna is dominated by Stenoscisma sp. and Elivina yunnanensis sp. nov. and exhibits strong generic and some specific links with faunas from the Bisnain assemblage of Timor and the Callytharra Formation of Western Australia and, to a lesser extent, faunas from the Jilong Formation of southern Tibet, the Tashkazyk Formation of southeastern Pamir, the lower Toinlungkongba Formation of northwestern Tibet, the upper Pondo Group of central Tibet, and the Jimba Jimba Calcarenite of the Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. Based on these correlations, a Late Sakmarian (Sterlitamakian) age is preferred for the Dingjiazhai brachiopod fauna. Two new species are proposed: Globiella youwangensis sp. nov. and Elivina yunnanensis sp. nov.","PeriodicalId":50830,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa","volume":"20 1","pages":"81-101"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03115519608619192","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59986128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AlcheringaPub Date : 1996-01-01DOI: 10.1080/03115519608619193
M. Dettmann, D. Jarzen
{"title":"Pollen of proteaceous-type from latest Cretaceous sediments, southeastern Australia","authors":"M. Dettmann, D. Jarzen","doi":"10.1080/03115519608619193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115519608619193","url":null,"abstract":"Abundant and diverse proteaceous-like triaperturate pollen from Campanian-Maastrichtian sediments in the Otway Basin, southeastern Australia are systematically documented and compared with pollen of extant Proteaceae. Segregation of fossil and extant pollen types has been effected on apertural characters of which six states have been identified. Apertures are colpoid, poroid or porate. Pores of Propylipollis Martin & Harris, 1974 conform with those of subfamilies Grevillioideae and Carnarvonioideae. Colpoids of Beaupreaidites Cookson emend. Martin, 1973, poroids of Lewalanipollis gen. nov., and pores of Cranwellipollis Martin & Harris, 1974 are represented in subfamilies Proteoideae and Persoonioideae. Pores of Proteacidites Cookson ex Couper, 1953 occur in subfamilies Proteoideae and Sphalmioideae. In the Otway Basin fossil record, triporate apertures appear earlier than tricolpoids, triporoids and biporates; and diversity levels of proteaceous pollen are higher than reported from elsewhere implying the ...","PeriodicalId":50830,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa","volume":"20 1","pages":"103-160"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03115519608619193","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59986185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AlcheringaPub Date : 1996-01-01DOI: 10.1080/03115519608619221
J. Grant‐Mackie, J. Buckeridge, P. Johns
{"title":"Two new Upper Jurassic arthropods from New Zealand","authors":"J. Grant‐Mackie, J. Buckeridge, P. Johns","doi":"10.1080/03115519608619221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115519608619221","url":null,"abstract":"An orthopteran wing fragment from the Upper Jurassic (Tithonian) of New Zealand is described as Notohagla mauii n. gen. et sp. and placed near species from the Jurassic-Cretaceous of Central Asia. Closely associated stratigraphically is a moulted abdomen of an urdid isopod Urda zelandica n. sp., similar to a Lower Cretaceous form from the Antarctic Peninsula.","PeriodicalId":50830,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa","volume":"20 1","pages":"31-39"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03115519608619221","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59985841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AlcheringaPub Date : 1996-01-01DOI: 10.1080/03115519608619189
S. Salisbury, P. Willis
{"title":"A new crocodylian from the Early Eocene of south-eastern Queensland and a preliminary investigation of the phylogenetic relationships of crocodyloids","authors":"S. Salisbury, P. Willis","doi":"10.1080/03115519608619189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115519608619189","url":null,"abstract":"Kambara implexidens sp. nov. is the second crocodylomorph from the Early Eocene (Ypresian) Tingamarra Local Fauna at Boat Mountain, near the township of Murgon, southeastern Queensland. Kambara is now the best represented genus of early Tertiary crocodylomorphs yet collected from Australia. The new species differs from Kambara murgonensis in several features, the most significant of which is possession of an interlocking dentition. Both species occur in a single stratigraphic horizon, possibly indicating two sympatric populations. The presence of adults and hatclings, coupled with the rarity of intermediately sized animals in the Murgon sample suggests the area may have been used as a nesting ground by one or both species. The new material permits a detailed reassessment of the phylogenetic relationships of Australia's Tertiary crocodylians, and provides impetus for a preliminary investigation into the relationships of many putative crocodylid stem taxa. We define Crocodyloidea and Crocodylidae as the des...","PeriodicalId":50830,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa","volume":"7 1","pages":"179-226"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03115519608619189","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59985932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AlcheringaPub Date : 1996-01-01DOI: 10.1080/03115519608619190
M. Macphail
{"title":"A habitat for the enigmatic Wynyardia bassiana Spencer, 1901, Australia's first described Tertiary land mammal?","authors":"M. Macphail","doi":"10.1080/03115519608619190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115519608619190","url":null,"abstract":"The habitat and habit of Australia's first recorded Tertiary marsupial species, Wynyardia bassiana, found some 130 years ago at Wynyard on the northwestern coast of Tasmania, remain enigmatic (Aplin 1987, Aplin & Rich 1990). Fossil pollen and spores preserved in a rafted clast of estuarine silts from the same sequence of earliest Miocene marine sandstones as the skeletal remains indicate the local vegetation was Nothofagus-gymnosperm evergreen rainforest, probably with a cryptogam-rich rather than woody subcanopy stratum. Comparisons with present-day Nothofagus rainforests suggest that, although the subcanopy would have been sufficiently open to allow the passage of a large ground-dwelling herbivorous marsupial, limited food resources are more consistent with Wynyardia being a generalist arboreal herbivore.","PeriodicalId":50830,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa","volume":"20 1","pages":"227-243"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/03115519608619190","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59986057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}