一小的甲龙,作为甲龙科(Ankylosauridae)中一新属新种,明星天池龙(Tianchisaurus nedegoapeferima gen. et sp. nov.)被记述。化石是1974年,新疆大学地质地理系的师生在新疆阜康县三工河地区作野外实习时采得,其产地的地层层位经新疆石油管理局东疆石油指挥部彭希龄核对为中侏罗世头顿河组。化石包括破的头骨碎片,五个颈椎,六个背椎,一个完整荐部(由七个椎体组成),三个尾椎,和许多膜质的甲胄,甲板,以及一些四肢骨。标本编号:V.10614,新属新种的特征是:一个小的,原始的,体长约三米的甲龙;头骨较高,有小的膜质的甲片复盖;下颚高,外侧无甲片复盖,有纵的饰纹,环椎与枢椎不愈合;颈椎椎体短,双凹型;背椎椎体较长,双平型,横突与背肋不愈合;荐部由七个愈合脊椎组成:前两个是背椎,形成一个荐前棒(presacral rod),最后的一个是尾椎,四个荐椎的椎体是整个椎柱中最大的,荐椎的神经棘愈合,形成一个纵的板状脊,远端的尾椎愈合形成小的,扁的尾锤。股骨直,骨干上有饰纹,第四转子呈嵴状。蹠骨和趾骨为甲龙型,与晚期甲龙的蹠骨和趾骨比较显得瘦小。在肩部有一个由四对大的膜质的甲板愈合形成肩甲带,甲板厚有发育的中嵴。在身体覆盖着许多大小不同,形状各异的甲片。Tianchisaurus nedegoapeferima的种名是应著名科幻电影导演Steven Splelberg之约请赠送给大型科幻电影片-侏罗纪公园之明星们:Sam Naill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck和Martin Ferrsro.我们称之明星天池龙(Tianchisaurus nedegoapeferima gen. et sp. nov.)。Tianchisaurus nedegoapeferima是目前甲龙亚目在亚洲的最早纪录。它的发现将甲龙的化石记录推到中侏罗世。
A new record of hadrosaur, Jiayinosauropus johnsoni ichnogen. et ichnosp. nov., was established on the basis of a well preserved footprint. The specimen was collected from the Yong’ancun Formation of Jiayin Group of early Late Cretaceous. The site is situated on the right bank of the Heilongjiang River, near Jiayin County, Heilongjiang Province. It was a pedal impression of a hadrosaur. It appeared a broadly tridactyl foot and possessed wide and thick digital. There are webs between the digits. The first hadrosaur, Mandschurosaurus amurensis (Riabinin, 1925,1930), was reported on the south bank of Heilongjiang River. It showed that the duck-bill dinosaurs existed in the region during the Cretaceous age. This footprint, Jiayinosauropus , is the first record of hadrosaur footprint in China.
本文是对1983年,中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所新疆古生物考察队在准噶尔盆地克拉美丽地区工作时采得蜥脚类化石进行简报。化石得自中一晚侏罗世五彩湾组、石树沟组,计有苏氏巧龙(Bellusaurus sui gen. et sp. nov.)和天山龙(未定种)(Tienshanosaurus sp.)。
