In May-July, 1993, a tomb of the Tang period to the north of Huanghe Road inChaoyang city was excavated by the Liaoning Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology andthe Chaoyang Municipal Museum. It is a...In May-July, 1993, a tomb of the Tang period to the north of Huanghe Road inChaoyang city was excavated by the Liaoning Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology andthe Chaoyang Municipal Museum. It is a brick-built round single-chambered grave and consists of atomb-passage, gate, corridor, chamber and seepage trough. Despite its repeated robberies in early times,the tomb yielded numerous funeral objects, including 71 terra-cotta and two stone tomb-figures, twobronze mirrors and an ivory courtier' s-tablet. The tomb-figures are exquisitely and vividly made andconstitute the cream of the grave goods unearthed from Tang tombs in the Chaoyang area. Judging fromits size as well as the great number and variety of its funeral objects, the tomb must have belonged to aperson who enjoyed a high position before his death. The co-existence of terra-cotta tomb-figures withCentral Plains characteristics, clay ones in the western style and stone ones with northern features indicates that in the Tang dynasty, before the An and Shi rebellion, the Chaoyang area was an importantregion of multi-national exchange and amalgamation. The grave should be dated to the Wu Zetian reign ora little later.展开更多
A new tapejarid pterosaur Huaxiapterus jii gen. et sp. nov. is erected based on a nearly complete skeleton with a skull. The skull morphology of Huaxiapterus jii gen. et sp. nov. appears transitional between the skull...A new tapejarid pterosaur Huaxiapterus jii gen. et sp. nov. is erected based on a nearly complete skeleton with a skull. The skull morphology of Huaxiapterus jii gen. et sp. nov. appears transitional between the skulls of Sinopterus and Tapejara. The skull morphology （low crest） of Huaxiapterusjii indicates that Huaxiapterus is more closely related to Sinopterus than to Tapejara, which has a high crest. The relatively long and shallow skull of Sinopterus indicates that it is a primitive form. Huaxiapterus is more derived than Sinopterus but more primitive than Tapejara.展开更多
In this article we describe a new and excep-tionally well-preserved pterodactyloid pterosaur, Sinopterus dongi gen. et sp. nov. from the Jiufotang Formation in west-ern Liaoning Province of northeast China. The new sp...In this article we describe a new and excep-tionally well-preserved pterodactyloid pterosaur, Sinopterus dongi gen. et sp. nov. from the Jiufotang Formation in west-ern Liaoning Province of northeast China. The new species is referred to the family Tapejaridae, representing its first re-cord outside Brazil. It also represents the earliest occurrence as well as the most complete skeleton of the family. Some revisions are made about the family according to the mor-phological observations of the postcranial bones of Sinop-terus. Two pterosaur assemblages appear to have existed in the Jehol Group, represented by the lower Yixian Formation and upper Jiufotang Formation, respectively. The lower pterosaur assemblage shows some resemblance to that of the Late Jurassic in Solnhofen (Tithonian) by sharing members of the Pterodactylidae and Anurognathidae. The upper one shows more resemblance to that of the Early Cretaceous Santana Formation (Aptian/Albian) by comprising only pterodactyloids such as the Tapejaridae. The age of the Yixian Formation is younger than that of the Solnhofen lithographic limestone, and the age of the Jiufotang Forma-tion (Aptian) is slightly older than the Santana Formation.展开更多
文摘In May-July, 1993, a tomb of the Tang period to the north of Huanghe Road inChaoyang city was excavated by the Liaoning Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology andthe Chaoyang Municipal Museum. It is a brick-built round single-chambered grave and consists of atomb-passage, gate, corridor, chamber and seepage trough. Despite its repeated robberies in early times,the tomb yielded numerous funeral objects, including 71 terra-cotta and two stone tomb-figures, twobronze mirrors and an ivory courtier' s-tablet. The tomb-figures are exquisitely and vividly made andconstitute the cream of the grave goods unearthed from Tang tombs in the Chaoyang area. Judging fromits size as well as the great number and variety of its funeral objects, the tomb must have belonged to aperson who enjoyed a high position before his death. The co-existence of terra-cotta tomb-figures withCentral Plains characteristics, clay ones in the western style and stone ones with northern features indicates that in the Tang dynasty, before the An and Shi rebellion, the Chaoyang area was an importantregion of multi-national exchange and amalgamation. The grave should be dated to the Wu Zetian reign ora little later.
文摘A new tapejarid pterosaur Huaxiapterus jii gen. et sp. nov. is erected based on a nearly complete skeleton with a skull. The skull morphology of Huaxiapterus jii gen. et sp. nov. appears transitional between the skulls of Sinopterus and Tapejara. The skull morphology （low crest） of Huaxiapterusjii indicates that Huaxiapterus is more closely related to Sinopterus than to Tapejara, which has a high crest. The relatively long and shallow skull of Sinopterus indicates that it is a primitive form. Huaxiapterus is more derived than Sinopterus but more primitive than Tapejara.
基金We thank all colleagues of the Liaoxi Project of the IVPP for assistance in the field Chang Meeman and Li Jinling for reading the manuscript Li Yutong for preparing the specimen and Gao Wei for photos. We are particularly in debt to Dong Zhiming f
文摘In this article we describe a new and excep-tionally well-preserved pterodactyloid pterosaur, Sinopterus dongi gen. et sp. nov. from the Jiufotang Formation in west-ern Liaoning Province of northeast China. The new species is referred to the family Tapejaridae, representing its first re-cord outside Brazil. It also represents the earliest occurrence as well as the most complete skeleton of the family. Some revisions are made about the family according to the mor-phological observations of the postcranial bones of Sinop-terus. Two pterosaur assemblages appear to have existed in the Jehol Group, represented by the lower Yixian Formation and upper Jiufotang Formation, respectively. The lower pterosaur assemblage shows some resemblance to that of the Late Jurassic in Solnhofen (Tithonian) by sharing members of the Pterodactylidae and Anurognathidae. The upper one shows more resemblance to that of the Early Cretaceous Santana Formation (Aptian/Albian) by comprising only pterodactyloids such as the Tapejaridae. The age of the Yixian Formation is younger than that of the Solnhofen lithographic limestone, and the age of the Jiufotang Forma-tion (Aptian) is slightly older than the Santana Formation.
