雷州半岛南部近40万年以来的古植被与古生态——田洋湖钻孔孢粉数值分析

雷州半岛火山湖盆地第四系沉积的孢粉化石较完整地记录了近40万年以来的植被历史。本文用数值分析的方法探讨了田洋钻孔孢粉植物群的演变规律和古生态特征。根据有序样品最优分割的结果共综合成1个全新世孢粉带和7个更新世孢粉带(含14个亚带)。并利用R型聚类分析、对应分析探讨了各类建群植物的相互依存关系及其生态群特征。     

An exceptionally well-preserved herbaceous eudicot from the Early Cretaceous (late Aptian–early Albian) of Northwest China

A fossil eudicot, Gansufructus saligna gen. et sp. nov., is reported from the Early Cretaceous (late Aptian–early Albian) of the Gansu Province, Northwest China, based on numerous well-preserved axes with attached leaves and infructescences. The leaves are alternate, short petiolate and linear-lanceolate with low rank pinnate to reticulate venation. The infructescences are loose panicles bearing fruits in different stages of maturity, each containing four partly free carpels borne in a whorled arrangement. Each carpel has three to five seeds borne along its ventral margin. The nature of the leaves and axes indicates a terrestrial, herbaceous habit. In general organization, Gansufructus is closely similar to the fruit-bearing axes of Sinocarpus decussatus from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota, as well as other more or less contemporaneous angiosperms from the Far East, which together provide evidence of diverse eudicot angiosperms of low stature colonizing areas close to environments of deposition.