Non-dinosaurs from Liaoning

["Jerry D. Harris" <LOKICORP@compuserve.com>]

Message text written by INTERNET:bh480@scn.org
>He says he wants to see fossils of lizards and 
other critters from Liaoning in case they show 
similar "feathers"--proving that the halos are not 
external integument. It is my understanding, though, that 
the Chinese have found fossils of lizards and other small 
beasties from Liaoning that do NOT show a halo of feather-
like integument. Some of these discoveries have not been 
widely discussed in the West, but include a weird long-
necked aquatic diapsid (choristoderan?) as I recall. 
Anyone have more info?
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        Yes, there are lizards and peculiar, superficially-lizard like
reptiles in the Yixian.  See:

Ji, S.  1999.  A new long-tailed lizard from Upper Jurassic of Liaoning,
China, in P. U. Department of Geology  (ed.)  Collected Works of
International Symposium on Geological Science.   Seismological Publishing
House, Beijing.

        Describes the lacertilian _Dalinghosaurus_.

Gao, K.-Q., Z.-L. Tang and X.-L. Wang.  1999.  A long-necked reptile from
the Upper Jurassic/Lower Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, northeastern
China.  Vertebrata PalAsiatica 37:  1-8.

Li, J., Z. Baokun and Q. Li.  1999.  A new genus of lepidosaurs from
Linyuan, Liaoning.  Memoirs of the Beijing Natural History Museum 56:  1-7.

        These two papers, oddly enough, describe part and counterpart of
the same specimen (!!!) and give it two different names!  The first (which
I think has priority, though I can't be sure -- certainly, the name it uses
has appeared in other literature whereas the name in the second has not)
names a peculiar reptile _Hyphalosaurus_; the second names the counterpart
_Sinohydrosaurus_.

        There are also amphibians from the Yixian:

Wang, Y. and K. Gao.  1999.  Earliest Asian discoglossid frog from western
Liaoning.  Chinese Science Bulletin 44:  636-642.

        Describes _Callobatrachus_.

Ji, S. and Q. Ji.  1998.  The first Mesozoic frog from China (Amphibia: 
Anura).  Chinese Geology 250:  39-42.

        Describes _Liaobatrachus_.

...and a salamander from the Jiufotang Fm.:

Dong, Z. and Y. Wang.  1998.  A new urodele (_Liaoxitriton zhongjiani_ gen.
et sp. nov.) from the Early Cretaceous of western Liaoning Province, China.
 Vertebrata PalAsiatica 36:  159-172.

        Describes _Liaoxitriton_.

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