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伊朗晚中新世的几个地点新近发现了哺乳动物足迹化石。足迹化石在伊朗中北部分布在一套被称为上红组的厚层、混杂的泻湖-陆相地层序列的数个层位中;在伊朗北部的里海地区南部,则位于一套陆相沉积序列中。产自上红组的足迹以偶蹄动物类型为主,由于个体很小,可归入几种像羚羊一样大小的种;其他足迹则分别归入小型、中型和大型的鼬科和猫科食肉动物。产自伊朗北部的足迹化石主要为长鼻类,有些可能是犀牛,少数为偶蹄类足迹。根据上红组中发现的猫科动物(剑齿虎)足迹,可认为产足迹的地层年代为晚中新世,而产于伊朗北部古地中海边缘区沉积中的长鼻类足迹显示,地层的最大年龄为中新世最早期。这些足迹化石的发现填补了这一重要地区新近纪哺乳动物化石记录的空白。
Mammalian footprint fossils have recently been discovered at several sites in late Miocene in Iran. Footprint fossils are located in several layers of a series of thick, mixed lagoons-continental facies in the central-northern Iran, and in the southern Caspian region of Iran, In the sequence. Footprints from the red group are dominated by cloven-hoofed animals and due to their small size, they can be classified into several species of the size of antelopes. Other footprints are classified as small, medium-sized, and large-family ferrets and cats predators . Footprints fossils originating in northern Iran are predominantly proboscis, while some may be rhinos and a few are cloven-footprints. According to the fauna (saber-toothed tiger) found in the Shanghong Formation, it can be assumed that the pedigree of the production footprints is late Miocene, while the proboscis, which was produced in the sediments of the Paleo-Mediterranean marginal zone in northern Iran, shows that the maximum age of the formation The earliest period of the Miocene. The discovery of these footprints fills a gap in Neandertalian mammalian fossil records in this important area.