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Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan New Series No. 97 Palaeon tolog ical Society of Japan April 30, 1975 Editor Takashi HAMADA Associate Editor Ikuwo OBATA Officers for 1975 - 1976 Honorary President: Teiichi KOBAYASHI President: Tatsuro MATSUMOTO Councillors (*Executive): *Kazuo ASAMA, Kiyoshi ASANO, *Kiyotaka CHINZEI, *Takashi HAMADA, *Tetsuro HANAI, *1 taru HAY AMI, Tadao KAMEl, *Kametoshi KANMERA, *Tamio KOTAKA, *Tatsuro MATSUMOTO, Tokio SHIKAMA, Tsugio SHUTO, *Yokichi TAKAYANAGI, Toshimasa TANAI, *Hiroshi UJIIE Executive Committee: General Affairs: Tetsuro HANAI, Itaru HAYAMI, Kiyotaka CHINZEI, Saburo KANNO, Y asuhide IWASAKI Membership: Kazuo ASAMA, Kazuhiko UEMURA Finance: Hiroshi UJIIE Planning: Tamio KOTAKA, Hiroshi NODA Publications Transactions: Takashi HAMADA, Ikuwo OBATA Special Papers ~ Kametoshi KANMERA, Ienori FUJIY AMA, Tomowo OZAWA "Fossils": Yokichi TAKAYANAGI, Toshiaki TAKAYAMA Fossil on the cover is the six leaves in a whorl of Trizygia oblongifolia (GERM. & KAULF.) ASAMA from the Maiya formation (Parafusulina zone), Maiya, N. E. Japan. All communications relating to this journal should be addressed to the PALAEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN c/o Business Center for Academic Societies, Japan Yayoi 2-4-16, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan Sole agent: University of Tokyo Press, Hongo, Tokyo Trans. Proc. Palaeont. Soc. Japan, N.S., No. 97, pp. 1-6, April 30, 1975 AMMONITOLOGY IN JAPAN-A HISTORICAL REVIEW (Presidential address, Palaeontological Society of Japan, 1975) TATSURO MATSUMOTO Department of Geology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812 B*K~~~7~~~1~~~~~:h~OOK~~~7~~~1~~~~~~, ~~~. ~1l~4i!.J~~f6~.!::, ~~iHcht-: "" -C ~ B*~~~~ ~5tt.51!Wvc~ ? ffltJ:* ~ ~ '0 ~ J: yC 100 if.~~5I:: ~*~Ij-t ~ .!::, iX~ 4 W:~lc:B-~ ~ .: .!:: tJ:-(- ~ ~o ~~1:M (1873-1915) mln;*~ (1l:!i1!:EfJ~/:"77); ~2Wl (1920-1950) L.F. SPATH fl1i:± I? (l)~l1v'~~T, Jl1I~ (1920-1935) ~:N&:WF~* (m7.Kfl1i:±yC~{tl!.) ~t.5!IVJ, ~~ (1936- 1950) ;t< A ~ m7.K (l&~~7,t.); !it 3 jtJl (1951 ]jJl$) 1iif~tt.51fjl;lEE~ (~t Icn'-~ Ht::fi~1f IR:B- . xtJt) (Treatise f±l1:RJl1I1~~OO~EfJ:x:drO; !it 4 Wl (!it 3 Wl.!::~lli: V::>"?¥t*",) /~ v::t /~ 1 ::t p ~ :h /1-- t.elm t t.5f6ft 1e~~r,~t6. }t~~%:1JvC~;Wf 1...-, OO~EfJ~J1;;HJI.!ff.!::Jtl!Bj(~¥o~EfJ~~'~~ t ",,-C, 4-~~' ""yC? ~JE~HltJ' IJ t-:~'o tl*~a~ The history of' researches on ammo­ under a strong influence of L. F. SPATH'S nites in our country may be divided in works. It is subdivisible into two sub­ four major stages, depending much on stages. The earlier half, for 1920-1935, the world development of palaeontology is characterized by SHIMIZU'S activity and also on the activities by Japanese (,26a-b, 27a-b, 30a-d, 31a-c, 32, 34, 35a-b), palaeontologists for generations. besides works by Y ABE and SHIMIZU (,21, The first stage, until 1915, is charac­ 24, 25a-b, 26a-b, 27), YEHARA (,25, 26, 28), terized by monographic works. The am­ SHIMIZU and JIMBO (,33), TOKUNAGA and monites obtained by pioneers' geological SHIMIZU (,26), KAWADA (,29) NAGAO (,31a­ reconnaissance in various parts of Japan b, 32a-b) and KOBAYASHI ('35) for the des­ were described by MOJSISOVICS (1889), criptions of Mesozoic ammonites. These YOKOYAMA (1890, 1904a, b), JIMBO (1894), were within the framework of the sys­ Y ABE (1901-2, 1903-4, 1909, 10, 14, 15) tematics proposed by SPATH, who seemed and DIENER (1915). The results were to have classified the Ammonoidea on his useful for the age determination of Meso­ philosophical basis of iterative evolution, zoic formations. Two interesting hetero­ and other authorities in Europe and morph genera, Pravitoceras and Nippo­ America. nites, were discovered by Y ABE (1901, 4) The biostratigraphic results in this in this stage. For some reasons (probably stage were summarized by Y ABE and affected by W orId War I), there is a SHIMIZU ('33) for the Triassic, MABUTI blank of activity for 1916-1920, but an ('33) for the Jurassic and Y ABE (,27) and issue of a revised textbook of palaeonto­ SHIMIZU (,31, 35) for the Cretaceous. logy (in Japanese) by YOKOYAMA in 1920. Only a species of Permian ammonite was The second stage, from 1920 to 1950 is reported in this substage (MABUTI, '35). 1 2 Tatsuro MATSUMOTO The later half, 1935-1950, is represented MATSUMOTO et a1. (,52, 66, 68, 69), NAKAI by a number of shorter papers, for in­ and HADA (,66), NAKAI and MATSUMOTO stance HAYASAKA (,40) on two Permian (,68), NODA (,72), SATO (,61) and T AKA­ species, Y ABE (,49) on an uncoiled (?) HASHI (,73) on the Lower Cretaceous ones, Triassic ammonite, KOBAYASHI (,47), Ko­ HAYASAKA and FUKADA (,51), WRIGHT BAYASHI and FUKADA ('47a-c) and FUKA­ and MATSUMOTO (,54), MATSUMOTO ('53, DA ('50) for some Jurassic ones, and 54a-b, 55b-c, 56, 57, 59, 60, 63, 65a-b, 67, MATSUMOTO'S (1936, 38a-c, 42a-d, 47) 69, 70a-b, 71, 73b, 75) MATSUMOTO et al. preliminary results of studies on Creta­ (,53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 63a-b, 64, 66, 67a-b, ceous ammonites. The apparently less 69, 72, 75) OBATA (,65), SAITO (,58-59,61- active situation was complementary with 62), HASHIMOTO ('73), HIRANO ('75) and very active works by KOBAYASHI on TANABE ('75) on the Upper Cretaceous Lower Palaeozoic nautiloid cephalopods ones. Some of these works have contri­ from China and Korea and on non-marine buted to improve considerably the taxo­ fossils from the Mesozoic of East Asia. nomic framework of certain families, e. g. ' The field works, as exemplified by MA TSU­ Desmoceratidae, Pachydiscidae, Kossmati­ MOTO ('42-43) and MATSUMOTO and ONO ceratidae, Acanthoceratidae, Collignon i­ ('47), however, constructed foundations ceratidae, Nostoceratidae and Otocerati­ for further advances in the next stage. dae. The research works in the third stage, The biostratigraphic results are also since 1951, have been much stimulated significant in establishing a reference by international exchange of knowledge, scale for the circum-Pacific areas and aided by publications of such compre­ also in attempting zonal correlation with hensive works as the Treatise, the Osnovy other standard or reference scales of the etc., and by airway transportation. A world, although there are further pro­ great number of papers have been pub­ blems to be settled. lished for the up-to-date descriptions of In the third stage the activities of ammonites from Japan :-HAYASAKA (,54, Japanese palaeontologists are extended 63), IGO (,64), Y ANAGISA WA ('67), NISHIDA overseas to the ammonite faunas and ('71) and BANDO ('75) on some Carboni­ type-specimens from certain areas as seen ferous and Permian ones, which are still in the results of NAKAZAWA and BANDO awaiting further descriptions; NAKA­ (,68), KAPOOR and BANDO (,74), BANDO ZA WA and SHIMIZU (,55), NAKAZA w A (,57, (,75), ISHIBASHI (,75), SATO (,61a-b, 63, 58a-b, 64, 71) (S. W. Japan), SAKAGAMI 72, 75), KOMALARJUN and SA TO (,64), (,55), KUMMEL and SAKAGAMI ('60) (Iwai), MATSUMOTO (,55, 59b, 59-60a-c, 60, 66a-b, ONUKI and BANDO (,59a-b), BANDO ('64a-. 73a), MATSUMOTO et al. (,58, 65, 66, 67, c, 66, 67a-b, 68a-b, 70,71,73), BANDO et a1. 69), and OBA T A et al. (,75). They have (,70, 74) (Kitakami etc.), and ISHIBASHI contributed to the. knowledge of inter­ (,70, 72, 73, 75) (Okinawa and Tanoura) on national correlation and world palaeo­ the Triassic ammonites; SATO (,54a-b, 55, biogeography. 56, 57, 58, 59, 61c-d, 62a-c, 72,74), SATO The fourth stage has started already, and KANIE (,63), SUZUKI and SA TO (,72), overlapping the third, and will continue MATSUMOTO (,56), MATSUMOTO and HIRA­ further on. By this I would mean the T A (,70), TAKAHASHI (,69, 73) and HIRANO gradually increased importance laid on (,71, 73a-b) on the Jurassic ones; OBATA palaeobiological studies. SCHINDEWOLF'S ('67a-b, 69, 73, 75), OBATA et al. (,75), (1968) comments on ammonitology may Ammonitology in Japan 3 mark a stimulating milestone for this as compared with commonly known trend. larger shells of the Puzosiinae have been To understand the lively ammonoids it recently reported by MATSUMOTO et al. is important to study the shell structure, ('72). JORDAN and I not'ice examples of its ontogenetic development, its functional injured ammo"nites from Japan. < This kind morphology, its relation to the soft part, of study (not yet published) would give as well as the soft body itself. The information on whereabouts of anatomic­ analysis from population to population on ally important portion of the soft body the stratigraphically well sorted material, and also on the mode of life. A palaeo­ combined with palaeoecology and palaeo· biochemical study, attempted by FUJI­ biogeography, would be essential to know WARA (,61) on an ammonite, awaits ad­ the true state of evolution in the Ammo­ vances in proper way. noidea. The results would give founda­ On the basis of the favourable material tions for more natural classification and of fossil population in a zone of the Iku­ more precise zonation or correlation, as shumbetsu sequence OBATA ('65) studied well. the ontogeny and allometry of Reesidites Along these lines the works done in minimus and its relation to Subpriono­ our country are still in the infancy, al­ cyclus normalis from the underlying zone though there were some. SHIMIZU (29, 34) (Turonian). This is going to be improved once examined through microsection the by REYMENT ('75) by more precise mathe­ siphuncle and other shell characters in matical treatment. TANABE ('75) attempts early ontogeny on some well preserved to clarify the chronological change of ammonites from Hokkaido and Sakhalin. shell characters and its functional mean­ This was an adventurous attempt but ing in Turonian species of Otoscaphites has been little developed further, until and ScaPhites from Hokkaido.
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    Origin, evolution and systematics of the dwarf Acanthoceratid Protacanthoceras Spath, 1923 (Cretaceous Ammonoidea) C. W. Wright Old Rectory, Seaborough, Beaminster, Dorset DT8 3QY W. J. Kennedy Geological Collections, University Museum, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PW Contents Synopsis ............. 65 Introduction ............. 66 Evolutionary origins ........... 66 Dimorphism ............. 67 Localities ............. 67 Stratigraphy ............. 68 Systematic descriptions ........... 68 Family Acanthoceratidae Hyatt ......... 68 Genus Protacanthoceras Spath ......... 68 Protacanthoceras tuberculatum Thomel ... .71 Protacanthoceras tuberculatum tuberculatum Thomel .. .71 Protacanthoceras tuberculatum Thomel mite subsp. nov. .... 74 Protacanthoceras tuberculatum Thomel devonense subsp. nov. ... 76 Protacanthoceras tuberculatum Thomel cyclopeum subsp. nov. ... 80 Protacanthoceras arkelli sp. nov. ........ 82 Protacanthoceras arkelli arkelli subsp. nov. ...... 84 Protacanthoceras arkelli verrucosum subsp. nov. ..... 86 Protacanthoceras tegulicium sp. nov. ........ 88 Protacanthoceras asgeirri sp. nov. ........ 90 Protacanthoceras bunburianum (Sharpe) ....... 91 Protacanthoceras proteus sp. nov. ........ 95 Protacanthoceras proteus proteus subsp. nov. ...... 95 Protacanthoceras proteus baylissi subsp. nov. ...... 96 Protacanthoceras imperatoris sp. nov. ....... 97 Other species previously referred to Protacanthoceras ...... 99 'Acanthoceras' cuspidum Stephenson ....... 99 ' Acanthoceras' aff. cuspidum Stephenson . .100 Ammonites tropicus Stoliczka
  • The Gaudryceratid Ammonoids from the Upper Cretaceous of the James Ross Basin, Antarctica

    The Gaudryceratid Ammonoids from the Upper Cretaceous of the James Ross Basin, Antarctica

    The gaudryceratid ammonoids from the Upper Cretaceous of the James Ross Basin, Antarctica MARÍA E. RAFFI, EDUARDO B. OLIVERO, and FLORENCIA N. MILANESE Raffi, M.E., Olivero, E.B., and Milanese, F.N. 2019. The gaudryceratid ammonoids from the Upper Cretaceous of the James Ross Basin, Antarctica. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64 (3): 523–542. We describe new material of the subfamily Gaudryceratinae in Antarctica, including five new species: Gaudryceras submurdochi Raffi and Olivero sp. nov., Anagaudryceras calabozoi Raffi and Olivero sp. nov., Anagaudryceras subcom- pressum Raffi and Olivero sp. nov., Anagaudryceras sanctuarium Raffi and Olivero sp. nov., and Zelandites pujatoi Raffi and Olivero sp. nov., recorded in Santonian to Maastrichtian deposits of the James Ross Basin. The early to mid-Campan- ian A. calabozoi Raffi and Olivero sp. nov. exhibits a clear dimorphism, expressed by marked differences in the ornament of the adult body chamber. Contrary to the scarcity of representative members of the subfamily Gaudryceratinae in the Upper Cretaceous of other localities in the Southern Hemisphere, the Antarctic record reveals high abundance and di- versity of 15 species and three genera in total. This highly diversified record of gaudryceratins is only comparable with the Santonian–Maastrichtian Gaudryceratinae of Hokkaido, Japan and Sakhalin, Russia, which yields a large number of species of Anagaudryceras, Gaudryceras, and Zelandites. The reasons for a similar, highly diversified record of the Gaudryceratinae in these distant and geographically nearly antipodal regions are not clear, but we argue that they prob- ably reflect a similar paleoecological control. Key words: Ammonoidea, Phylloceratida, Gaudryceratinae, Lytoceratoidea, Cretaceous, Antarctica. María E.
  • 131. a Note on the Japanese Ammonites Belonging to the Caudryceratidae*

    131. a Note on the Japanese Ammonites Belonging to the Caudryceratidae*

    666 [Vol. 18, 131. A Note on the Japanese Ammonites Belonging to the Caudryceratidae*. By Taturo MATUMOTO. (Comm. by T. KATO,M.I.A., Dec. 12, 1942.) The Japanese fossils of the Gaudryceratidae, one of the important families of Cretaceous Ammonoidea, have been studied by H. Yabe and other Japanese paleontologists. I also had the opportunity of studying the material in connection with the biostratigraphic investi- gation on the Cretaceous deposits of Hokkaido and Karahuto. The following is a short note on the result of my study.' The numerous Japanese specimens so far examined are classified as follows. Family Gaydryceratidae. Genus Parajaubertella; Matumoto nov. P. kawakitana Matumoto nov. (genotype) Genus Anagaudryceras, Shimizu emend. A, sacya (Fortes) em. (genotype) A. sacya var. plicatocostata Matumoto MS. A. limatum (Yabe) A. yokoyamai (Yabe) A, ryugasense Matumoto MS. A. madraspatanum (Blanford) Genus Gaudryceras, Grossouvre em. G. denseplicatum (Jimbo) G. denseplicatum var. intermedia (Yabe) em. G. denseplicatum var. kawadai Matumoto MS. G. tenuiliratum Yabe em. G. tenuiliratum var. frequence Matumoto MS. G. tenuiliratum var. substriata Matumoto MS. G. tenuiliratum var. ornata Yabe G. striatum (limbo) (=? G, sachalinensis (Schmidt)) G. striatum var. paucistriata Matumoto MS. G. striatum var. picta Yabe G. striatum var. lata Matumoto MS. G. crassicostatum (Jimbo) G. subcostatum Matumoto MS. Genus Zelandites, Marshall em. Matumoto Z. odiensis (Kossmat) Z, odiensis var. lateumbilicata Matumoto MS. Z. mihoensis Matumoto Z. mihoensis var. capricornus Matumoto MS. Z. kawadai (limbo) em. Z. varuna (Forties) var. japonica Matumoto Z. sp. (n, sp. ?) A close investigation of the ontogenetic development enables us to elucidate the proper systematic position of species and genera.
  • Codazziceras Ospinae (Karsten, 1858) from the Turonian (Upperￃﾂￂﾠcretaceous) of Colombia

    Codazziceras Ospinae (Karsten, 1858) from the Turonian (Upperￃﾂￂﾠcretaceous) of Colombia

    Cretaceous Research 88 (2018) 392e398 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Cretaceous Research journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/CretRes Codazziceras ospinae (Karsten, 1858) from the Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) of Colombia * Pedro Patarroyo a, , Peter Bengtson b a Departamento de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Cr. 30 N. 45-03, Bogota, Colombia b Institut für Geowissenschaften, Im Neuenheimer Feld 234, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany article info abstract Article history: The ammonite Codazziceras ospinae (Karsten, 1858) is described from sections in the Upper Magdalena Received 29 December 2016 Valley and San Francisco, south and north-west of Bogota, Colombia. Its co-occurrence with species of Received in revised form Hoplitoides von Koenen, 1898, and Coilopoceras Hyatt, 1903, places it stratigraphically in the lower to 30 March 2017 middle Turonian, in contrast to previous assignments to the upper Turonian to lower Coniacian. Three Accepted in revised form 2 April 2017 specimens come from the lower part of the Loma Gorda Formation (TuronianeConiacian) and one Available online 4 April 2017 specimen from the middle part of the La Frontera Formation (loweremiddle Turonian). The type species of the genus Codazziceras Etayo-Serna, 1979, is Lyelliceras scheibei Riedel, 1938, which Keywords: Codazziceras is a junior synonym of Ammonites Ospinae Karsten, 1858. If a new type species is to be selected, Turonian Codazziceras ospinae will be the obvious choice. Cretaceous © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Ammonites Colombia 1. Introduction formation, spanning the Turonian and Coniacian, as evidenced by ammonites and inoceramids (cf. Carvajal Gonzalez and Patarroyo, During field work with geology students of the Universidad 2007; Patarroyo, 2011).