Discovery of Pleuromeia-Annalepis Flora in South Chinaand Its Significance  

作　　者：孟繁松 

机构地区：[1]Yichang Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, Yichang 443003, PRC

出　　处：《Chinese Science Bulletin》1994年第2期130-134,共5页

基　　金：National Natural Science Foundation of China.

摘　　要：It is well known that most of South China was in a vast expanse of ocean dur-ing Early-Aliddle Triassic, so the fossil plants are quite rare there. So far as thescope of the world is concerned, the Anisian plants are also very scarce. Inrecent years, however, a flora represented by Pleuromeia and Annalepis has beenfound in the Badong Formation in the Yangzi Gorge area, China. It occurs withMiddle Triassic marine bivalves, such as Eumorphotis (Asoella) cf.subillyrica (Hsu),Myophoria (Costatoria) cf.goldfussi mansuyi Hsu, etc., and lies over the strata withAnisian ammonites Progonoceratites. This flora, therefore, should undoubtedly be ofthe Anisian in age. This discovery will be of important significance not only for

关 键 词：Pleuromeia-Annalepis FLORA ANISIAN SOUTH China. 

分 类 号：Q914[天文地球—古生物学与地层学]