caa a22 4500 388110465 CHVBK 20180307125352.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0263593300002595 doi S0263593300002595 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0263593300002595 A microvertebrate fauna from the Llandovery of South China [Elektronische Daten] The late Llandovery (early Silurian) of South China has yielded a locally abundant and diverse microvertebrate fauna. This includes scales of the little-known mongolepids, sinacanthid spines and a whole host of as yet unassigned forms. The material recovered provides a considerable amount of new information about the diversity of fish in the South Yangtze biome during the early Silurian, and suggests that ichthyoliths have a future role to play in Lower Palaeozoic stratigraphic correlation across China and into Mongolia and Siberia. A new family of mongolepids, the Shiqianolepidae, is erected, accommodating the new genus Shiqianolepis with the type species S. hollandi. The description of Shiqianolepis enables the identification of a differentiated squamation in mongolepid fish, a feature which has not previously been recognised. Two further taxa, Rongolepis cosmetica gen. et sp. nov. and Chenolepis asketa gen. et sp. nov., of, as yet, uncertain affinities are also erected. Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1999 dentine nationallicence gnathostome origins nationallicence microvertebrates nationallicence Silurian fish nationallicence vertebrate hard tissue histology nationallicence Sansom I. J. School of Earth Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK Aldridge R. J. Department of Geology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LEI 7RH, UK Smith M. M. Department of Craniofacial Development, Floor 27, Guy's Tower, London Bridge, SE1 9RT, UK Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences Royal Society of Edinburgh Scotland Foundation 90/3(1999), 255-272 0263-5933 90:3<255 1999 90 TRE https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263593300002595 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263593300002595 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sansom I. J. School of Earth Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Aldridge R. J. Department of Geology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LEI 7RH, UK NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Smith M. M. Department of Craniofacial Development, Floor 27, Guy's Tower, London Bridge, SE1 9RT, UK NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences Royal Society of Edinburgh Scotland Foundation 90/3(1999), 255-272 0263-5933 90:3<255 1999 90 TRE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge