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SEM Morphological Study of the Paratype of the Spinicaudatan <i>Feiyunella zhedongensis</i> (Chen and Shen, 1977) from Cretaceous of Linhai, Zhejiang, South-East China
CAS Key Laboratory of Economic Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
- 1 CAS Key Laboratory of Economic Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
- 2 State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
- 3 University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Open Journal of Geology·Volume 09 (2019)·Pages 613–615·Published 20 September 2019·DOI10.4236/ojg.2019.910055
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Abstract
Spinicaudatans, a suborder of the abandoned taxonomic group “Conchostraca”, are very useful for biostratigraphic subdivision and correlation of the non-marine successions, remarkably in otherwise fossil-scarce red beds. Feiyunella, a monospecies spinicaudatan genus, was established based on specimens from sediments of Upper Cretaceous red beds in different localities of Zhejiang Province. The morphological examination under a scanning electron microscope of the type specimens of Feiyunella zhedongensis (Chen and Shen, 1977) has found that the paratype from the Fangyan Formation at Xiaoling of Linhai City, Zhejiang Province, is not Feiyunella , but a younger individual of Linhaiella .
KeywordsSpinicaudatan<i>Feiyunella</i><i>Linhaiella</i>TaxonomyCretaceousSouth-East China
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