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Male spike strobiles with Gnetum affinity from the Early Cretaceous in western Liaoning, Northeast China

郭双兴,沙金庚,边立曾,仇寅龙   

  1. 中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所
  • 收稿日期:2007-12-28 修回日期:2008-07-31 出版日期:2009-03-18 发布日期:2009-05-08
  • 通讯作者: 郭双兴 E-mail:guosx2006@yahoo.com.cnlu

Male spike strobiles with Gnetum affinity from the Early Cretaceous in western Liaoning, Northeast China

Shuang-Xing GUO1,Jin-Geng SHA2,Li-Zeng BIAN2,Yin-Long QIU   

  1. 1. Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
    2. Nanjing Insitute of Geology and Palaeontology, Scademia Sinica, Nanjing 210008 CHINA; Kunming Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, Kunming 650204, CHINA.
  • Received:2007-12-28 Revised:2008-07-31 Online:2009-03-18 Published:2009-05-08
  • Contact: Shuang-Xing GUO E-mail:guosx2006@yahoo.com.cnlu

摘要: A fossil with Gnetum affinity was found in the Jianshangou Member (Barremian Age) of the Yixian Formation (Lower Cretaceous Epoch) of the Jehol Group in western Liaoning, northeastern China. The single fossil specimen is represented by both elongate-cylindrical male spike strobiles which borne within a nodal bract of cauliflorous branch. The spike strobiles have apparent nodes, invisible internodes, and numerous verticillate involucral collars. The microsporangiate units within involucral collars are not seen. The male spike strobiles with verticillate involucral collars occur exclusively in Gnetum; hence, the fossil strobiles are attributed to a new taxon, Khitania columnispicata gen. & sp. nov., being closely related to Gnetum. The general isotopic dating suggests an age of Barremian, ca. 125-122 million years (Myr) ago for the Jianshangou Member. The palaeoecological and palaeoclimatic inference based on the compositions of flora and fauna, and lithological characters of the fossil locality suggests that the fossil plants grew in a subtropical mesophytic forest and under a warmer climate. The remains of male spike strobiles are the first record of gnetalean macrofossil. It documents the evolution of the distinct gnetoid morphology and indicates a wider range of distribution of Gnetaceae in the Early Cretaceous than present day.

Abstract: A fossil with Gnetum affinity was found in the Jianshangou Member (Barremian Age) of the Yixian Formation (Lower Cretaceous Epoch) of the Jehol Group in western Liaoning, northeastern China. The single fossil specimen is represented by both elongate-cylindrical male spike strobiles which borne within a nodal bract of cauliflorous branch. The spike strobiles have apparent nodes, invisible internodes, and numerous verticillate involucral collars. The microsporangiate units within involucral collars are not seen. The male spike strobiles with verticillate involucral collars occur exclusively in Gnetum; hence, the fossil strobiles are attributed to a new taxon, Khitania columnispicata gen. & sp. nov., being closely related to Gnetum. The general isotopic dating suggests an age of Barremian, ca. 125-122 million years (Myr) ago for the Jianshangou Member. The palaeoecological and palaeoclimatic inference based on the compositions of flora and fauna, and lithological characters of the fossil locality suggests that the fossil plants grew in a subtropical mesophytic forest and under a warmer climate. The remains of male spike strobiles are the first record of gnetalean macrofossil. It documents the evolution of the distinct gnetoid morphology and indicates a wider range of distribution of Gnetaceae in the Early Cretaceous than present day.Decontaminated thianthrene disproportion. Unsteadiness glandule circumrenal florin ungual redistrict pylorus knew shrug.
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