Language: Chinese with English summary
ISBN/ISSN: 7030246073
Published on: 2009-01
Hardcover
Widespread non-marine Mesozoic deposits in China often contain abundant archostematan fossils with significance for correlation. Up to now, 58 genera and 96 extinct species assigned to 10 families of this group have been erected from 16 localities in China. Among them 45 new species and 22 genera (including 17 new genera) assigned to 5 familes have been described and illustrated by us, including 4 new genera and 8 new species within 4 families.
The finding documents the first records of nearly complete fossil Tricoleidae and Rhombocoleidae in world and offer more morphologic characters for the study of evolutional relationship between these families and other archostematan beetles. And mainly of them is cupedomorphs, including 35 species and 13 genera belonging to Cupedidae and Ommatidae. Of the 8 cupedid genera studied, the species of Mesocupes, Priama and Priacmopsis are first known from China, and the later two as well as so characteristics of the cupedomorphs, at present, eight cupedid and ommatid assemblages are recognized from the Jurassic-Cretaceous rocks in northern China; and only one poorly preserved ommatid specimen, Zygadenia sp. Occurs in southern China. Te fossil species occurring in northeastern China are listed for each genus and their type localities are given.
1.Research history and current situation of the archostemmatan fossils
(1)Research history of Archostemata
(2)Overseas current situation of the archostematan fossils
(3)Domestic current situation of the archostematan fossils
2.Materials and methods
(1)Materials
(2)Methods
3.Description of the Archostemata fossil beetles
(1)Historical notes about classification and relationships of Cupedidae and Ommatidae
(2)Systematic Paleontology of Cupedidae and Ommatidae
(3)Historical review of schizophoroid and cupedid branches
(4)Systematic of the schizophoroid and cupedoid branch
4.Cupedomorpha assemblages in North China
(1)Cupedomorpha assemblages in Northeast China
(2)Northwestern China fossil cupedid assemblage
(3)Shandong Province fossil ommatid assemblage
5. The possibly phylogenetic relationship of archostematan fossil beetles in China
(1)The relationship between Ademosynidae and suborder Polyphaga
(2)The relationship between Catiniidae and suborder Myxophaga
(3)The relationship between Tricoleidae and Cupedidae
6.Palaeogeography of fossil beetles in the suborder Archostemata
(1)Palaeogeography of the genus Brochocoleus Hong, 1982
(2)Palaeogeography of the genera Priacma Leonte, 1874 and Tetraphalerus Waterhouse, 1901
(3)The endemics fossil beetles in Northeast China
7. Paleoecological characteristics in Northeast China during the Late Mesozoic
(1)The Late Mesozoic climate in North China
(2)Life behavior of the fossil Archostemata
(3)The food relation between the fossil Archostemata and the vertebrate representatives in North China during the Late Mesozoic
8. Tentative stratigraphical arrangement of arhostematan faunas in northeastern China
(1)The Jiulongshan Formation, Daohugou, Inner Mongolia
(2)The Yixian Formation of Chaomidian Village, western Liaoning
9. Conclusions
