New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics abstracts
First record of Early Jurassic Lupherella fauna (Bivalvia) in
eastern Guangdong, southeast China
Jiarun Yin
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology
Nanjing 210008, P. R. China
and
China University of Geosciences
Beijing 100083, P. R. China
email: yjr@cugb.edu.cn
Huazhou Yao
Yi-chang Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources
Yi Chang 443000, Hubei Province, P. R. China
Jingeng Sha
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology
Nanjing 210008, P. R. China
Abstract Lupherella, previously thought endemic
to the eastern Pacific, is now reported from eastern Guangdong, China. Associated
ammonites prove a late Sinemurian to late Pliensbachian age for the bivalve
assemblage consisting of Lupherella huidongensis, Lupherella
cf. boechiformis, Otapiria cf. marshalli, Camptonectes
(Hunanonectes) sp., and others. Appearance of Lupherella and
Otapiria cf. marshalli in south China indicates trans-Pacific
faunal dispersal during Early Jurassic times.
Keywords Lower Jurassic; bivalves; ammonites; Guangdong;
China; biostratigraphy; biogeography; Lupherella; Otapiria
G03016; Received 27 June 2003; accepted 4 December 2003; Online publication
date 20 May 2004
New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 2004, Vol. 47: 321–326
0028–8306/04/4702–0321 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2004
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