{"title":"Gastropod Grazing Traces (Incipient Radulichnus isp.) in the Godavari River, India and their Preservation Potential in the Fossil Record","authors":"A. Uchman, Biplab B. Bhattacharya, Abhirup Saha","doi":"10.2517/PR220003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2517/PR220003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Grazing traces attributed to gastropods and classified as incipient Radulichnus occur on eroded surfaces of Permian sandstones outcropping along the Godavari River in India, far beyond marine influences. Presumably, they were produced during monsoon flooding approximately four months before observations, probably by the apple snail Pila globosa (Swainson, 1822) of the family Ampullariidae feeding on biofilms. Even after such an extended period of time, their morphology is still well preserved. This demonstrates their preservation potential, especially when buried by sediment, and also suggests that such traces can be found as fossils in ancient fluvial environments.","PeriodicalId":54645,"journal":{"name":"Paleontological Research","volume":"27 1","pages":"436 - 440"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48348528","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}
{"title":"A New Miocene Gobiiform Fish, Odontobutis hayashitokuei from Iki, Nagasaki, Japan","authors":"Y. Yabumoto, Chun-guang Zhang","doi":"10.2517/PR210039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2517/PR210039","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. A new gobiiform fish Odontobutis hayashitokuei sp. nov. is decribed from middle Miocene freshwater deposits of the Chojabaru Formation in Iki Island, Nagasaki, Japan based on a single specimen. This new species differs from other species of the genus Odontobutis in having 21 caudal vertebrae and a smaller head. Odontobutis hayashitokuei sp. nov. is most similar to O. obscura in having almost the same position of dorsal and anal fins. This is the first fossil species of the genus Odontobutis and suggests that the origin of the genus extends to the middle Miocene, about 15 Ma.","PeriodicalId":54645,"journal":{"name":"Paleontological Research","volume":"27 1","pages":"383 - 395"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47258516","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}
{"title":"A New Species of Fossil Nymphalidae (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) from the Upper Pliocene Motojuku Group, Gunma Prefecture, Japan","authors":"Hiroaki Aiba, Yui Takahashi, Y. Sakamaki","doi":"10.2517/PR220018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2517/PR220018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. In this study, we describe and illustrate a new fossil species of Nymphalidae (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea), Neptis kabutoiwaensis sp. nov., based on an impression fossil from the Upper Pliocene Motojuku Group, Gunma Prefecture, central Japan, which is the first fossil representative belonging to the subfamily Limenitidinae of Nymphalidae. In addition, our study is the first to report the discovery of a named Papilionoidea fossil from the Pliocene Series. The fossil shares characteristics, such as the reduced forelegs, open discal cell in the forewing, and short Sc + R1 vein in the hindwing, with the tribe Neptini of Limenitidinae. However, the presence of the CuP vein in the forewing suggests that the studied fossil is clearly different from known species of tribe Neptini. This is an important discovery that can assist us in exploring the evolution of the tribe Neptini during the Pliocene, because this new species has the possible ancestral characteristic of a CuP vein in its forewing.","PeriodicalId":54645,"journal":{"name":"Paleontological Research","volume":"27 1","pages":"441 - 450"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44860255","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}
{"title":"Dimorphism in the Early Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) Ammonoid Parajaubertella","authors":"Y. Shigeta, Haruyoshi Maeda, Toshihiro Sakai","doi":"10.2517/PR220023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2517/PR220023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Ontogenetic development of ornamentation and whorl geometry of the Cretaceous ammonoids Parajaubertella kawakitana and P. zizoh are studied based on well-preserved specimens collected from the lower Cenomanian in the Horokanai area, Hokkaido, Japan. Our results indicate that their comparably sized immature stages share identical ornamentation and shell morphology, while the size of their adult shells is distinctly bimodal. They also share the same stratigraphic ranges in the lower Cenomanian and have overlapping geographic distributions in Northwest Pacific region, and lastly, they co-occur in the same concretions. This evidence strongly suggests that the two taxa should be considered as dimorphs, microconch and macroconch of a single species, which is herein described as P. kawakitana.","PeriodicalId":54645,"journal":{"name":"Paleontological Research","volume":"27 1","pages":"396 - 416"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49214626","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}
{"title":"New Replacement Names in Fossil Echinoderms (Echinodermata)","authors":"F. Ceccolini, F. Cianferoni","doi":"10.2517/PR210029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2517/PR210029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Within the genera of fossil Echinodermata three junior homonyms are found and the following replacement names are proposed: Edrioblastocystis nom. nov. pro Blastocystis Jaekel, 1918 nec Aléxéieff, 1911 and consequently Edrioblastocystidae nom. nov. to replace Blastocystidae Jaekel, 1918; Euzonohymenosoma nom. nov. = Hymenosoma Lehmann, 1957 nec Desmarest, 1823; Pennsylvanicycloscapus nom. nov. = Cycloscapus Moore and Jeffords, 1968 nec Erdös and Novicky in Erdös, 1951. Accordingly, also three new combinations (comb. nov.) are established.","PeriodicalId":54645,"journal":{"name":"Paleontological Research","volume":"27 1","pages":"379 - 382"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48347518","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}
{"title":"Late Maastrichtian (latest Cretaceous) Ammonoids from the Naiba Area, Southern Sakhalin, Russian Far East","authors":"Y. Shigeta, Haruyoshi Maeda","doi":"10.2517/PR210021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2517/PR210021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Six early late Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) ammonoid taxa are reported from the Krasnoyarka Formation of the Yezo Group in the Naiba area, southern Sakhalin, Russian Far East. These taxa are grouped into “immigrant species”, i.e., those that migrated from other regions (Pachydiscus subcompressus, Anagaudryceras mikobokense, Gaudryceras seymouriense and Zelandites varuna) and “indigenous species” with a North Pacific distribution (Anagaudryceras matsumotoi). It is unclear to which group Tetragonites sp. belongs. Zelandites varuna and G. seymouriense occur in both the lower upper Maastrichtian as well as the upper lower Maastrichtian in southern Sakhalin, but they have never been found in the middle Maastrichtian. The appearance of these two species in the cold-water regions, i.e., North Pacific and Antarctic, as well as intermediate southern mid-latitudes regions suggests that cooling events occurred during the late early and early late Maastrichtian in the Northwest Pacific region. Their disappearance during the middle Maastrichtian may indicate that the Northwest Pacific region was affected by the greenhouse Middle Maastrichtian Event (MME). This hypothesis suggests that the influx (e.g. P. subcompressus and A. mikobokense) and reappearance (e.g. Z. varuna and G. seymouriense) of many immigrant species into the Northwest Pacific region during late Maastrichtian time may have been associated with the post-MME cooling.","PeriodicalId":54645,"journal":{"name":"Paleontological Research","volume":"27 1","pages":"277 - 309"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47761114","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}
{"title":"A New Fossil Rorqual Aff. Balaenoptera Bertae Specimen from the Shinazawa Formation (Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene), Yamagata, Japan","authors":"Yoshihiro Tanaka, K. Nagasawa, Suburu Oba","doi":"10.2517/PR210038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2517/PR210038","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. More than 23 extinct species and 10 extant species of the Balaenopteridae are known. Our knowledge of the family Balaenopteridae is increasing quickly, however, few fossil records support a circum-North Pacific distribution of balaenopterid genera and species. Because of limited preservations, most rorqual fossils reported from the western North Pacific can only be identified to the family level. A skull from the Shinazawa Formation (late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene) in Yamagata, Japan, is identified as aff. Balaenoptera bertae by possessing two diagnostic features of the species: large occipital condyles, and a posteriorly elongate postglenoid process. Combination of four more features also support that the specimen is a closely related to B. bertae. The specimen is probably a slightly older individual than the holotype of B. bertae, based on the estimated bizygomatic width and slightly longer posterior process of the tympanoperiotic. The first and only report of B. bertae was from the Pliocene Purisima Formation in California, USA. The specimen from Japan is incompletely preserved, but shows the occurrence of B. bertae in the western North Pacific for the first time, as many living balaenopterids are distributed across the North Pacific, such as Balaenoptera musculus, B. physalus, B. borealis, B. acutorostrata, and Megaptera novaeangliae.","PeriodicalId":54645,"journal":{"name":"Paleontological Research","volume":"27 1","pages":"324 - 332"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49154213","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}
{"title":"Description of a Titanosauriform (Sauropoda, Dinosauria) Cervical Vertebra from the Lower Cretaceous Kanmon Group, Southwestern Japan","authors":"Jun-Ichiro Tatehata, T. Mukunoki, Kyo Tanoue","doi":"10.2517/PR220009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2517/PR220009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. A fragmentary and the largest single bone element from the Lower Cretaceous Kanmon Group in Kyushu Island, southwestern Japan reported yet to date is described. This specimen has a fossa and lenticular foramen on its lateral surface and internal chambers of both large and small sizes. It was identified as the cervical vertebra of a titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur mainly based on such pneumatic structure. This specimen represents the first titanosauriform to be described from the Kanmon Group.","PeriodicalId":54645,"journal":{"name":"Paleontological Research","volume":"27 1","pages":"350 - 358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48468377","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}
{"title":"Five Species of Microporina (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata) from the Pleistocene Setana Formation at Kuromatsunai, Hokkaido, Japan","authors":"S. Arakawa","doi":"10.2517/PR210017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2517/PR210017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Fossils of Microporina species were collected and examined from the Soebetsu Sandstone Member of the Pleistocene Setana Formation in southwestern Hokkaido. A description is provided for M. japonica Canu and Bassler, and four species (M. sakakurai, M. minuta, M. quadristoma and M. soebetsuensis) are newly described. Some of them were previously reported as M. articulata (Fabricius). Among the five species, three (M. japonica, M. sakakurai, M. minuta) have a semielliptical or elliptical orifice, relatively large and deep frontal pseudopores, opesiules occluded with a thin plate showing vein-like surface sculpturing, and avicularia that are longer than wide. The other two (M. quadristoma, M. soebetsuensis) have a rounded-quadrate orifice (sometimes with a convex proximal margin), smaller frontal pseudopores, opesiules occluded but lacking vein-like surface sculpturing, and avicularia that are circular or wider than long. Marked orificial dimorphism is observed in two species, M. sakakurai and M. soebetsuensis.","PeriodicalId":54645,"journal":{"name":"Paleontological Research","volume":"27 1","pages":"245 - 260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43092339","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}
Mark Williams, T. Komatsu, P. Nguyen, D. Siveter, A. McGairy, Harrison Bush, Robert H. Goodall, T. Harvey, C. Stocker, J. Legrand, Toshihiro Yamada, C. Miller
{"title":"Ostracods from the Upper Silurian Si Ka Formation, Northern Vietnam, and Their Paleobiogeographical Significance","authors":"Mark Williams, T. Komatsu, P. Nguyen, D. Siveter, A. McGairy, Harrison Bush, Robert H. Goodall, T. Harvey, C. Stocker, J. Legrand, Toshihiro Yamada, C. Miller","doi":"10.2517/PR210032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2517/PR210032","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. The first detailed, systematic record of Silurian ostracod crustaceans from Vietnam is presented. Ostracods from the upper Silurian (upper Ludlow–lower Pridoli) Si Ka Formation of Ha Giang Province, northern Vietnam comprise ca. 10 species, including two new species of hollinoideans, two beyrichioideans, three species of eridostracine, at least one putative paraparchitoidean, and two indeterminate palaeocopid species. The fauna co-occurs with macroplant and fish fragments, and pterineid bivalves, in lithofacies that are interpreted as estuarine. The presence of beyrichioideans is consistent with their reported occurrence in marine, marginal-marine and estuarine ostracod assemblages elsewhere in the late Silurian and Devonian. One of the beyrichioidean species possibly represents Qujingsia nonaculeata, a species known from the Ludlow–Pridoli of South China, thus endorsing the supposed late Silurian age of the Vietnam fauna and its paleogeographical position on the South China paleo-plate. The other beyrichioidean is Beyrichia (Beyrichia), a globally distributed taxon in the Silurian and Early Devonian. Three species of eridostracine are referred to Cryptophyllus, a genus with a global distribution and temporal range from the Ordovician to Carboniferous. Hollinoidean taxa, whilst endemic at the genus-level, show affinities with glossomorphitine and sigmoopsinae taxa from Europe.","PeriodicalId":54645,"journal":{"name":"Paleontological Research","volume":"27 1","pages":"261 - 276"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46907257","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}