AGE OF THE FOSSIL CONCHOSTRACANS FROM DAOHUGOU OF NINGCHENG,INNER MONGOLIA
AGE OF THE FOSSIL CONCHOSTRACANS FROM DAOHUGOU OF NINGCHENG,INNER MONGOLIA
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2003
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Shen Yan-bin
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Shen Yan-bin
Daohugou village in Ningcheng, Inner Mongolia, is famous for yielding a variety of fossil groups, especially abundant conchostracans, which are very well preserved with soft parts and larval-stage individuals. The conchostracans are characterized by small carapaces, circleular or elliptical shapes, small reticulate ornamentation, including four species in one genus: E. ziliujingensis Chen, E. haifanggouensis Chen, E. jingyuanensis Chen, and Euestheria luanpingensis Shen et Niu. In China there are two conchostracan faunas of Middle Jurassic age, Euestheria ziliujingensis fauna in the lower part (Bajocian—middle Bathonian) and Pseudograpta fauna in the upper part (late Bathonian—Callovian). Euestheria ziliujingensis, E. haifanggouensis, and E. jingyuanensis found in Daohugou village are the important elements of the early Middle Jurassic Euestheria ziliujingensis fauna. Euestheria luanpingensis was known from the lower Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation in northern Hebei where this species is also preserved with soft parts and larval-stage individuals. So the conchostracan assemblage from Daohugou should belong to the early Middle Jurassic Euestheria ziliujingensis fauna and are correlative with that in the Jiulongshan Formation. It is distinguished from the late Middle Jurassic Pseudograpta fauna by that the latter possesses mo- derate carapace, complex sculpture of the valve and diverse genera. It is quite different from the Upper Jurassic Nestoria fauna of the Dabeigou Formation and the famous Eosestheria fauna from the Yixian Formation, western Liaoning.