MESOZOIC SALAMANDER FOSSIL-BEARING STRATA IN RESHUITANG AREA NEAR LINGYUAN,WESTERN LIAONING

New salamander fossil-bearing beds were found from a suite of acid intermediate and acid-volcanic rocks in Reshuitang area near Lingyuan, Western Liaoning Province.The fossil beds are inferred as to Reshuitang Bed.The sala-mander fossils are similar to those of Chunerpeton from the Haifanggou Formation exposed at Daohugou, Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia.The plant fossil assemblage shows their feature situated between Middle Jurassic Haifanggou and Early Cretaceous Yixian Formations.Its age refers to the late stage of Middle Jurassic.Therefore, the Reshuitang Bed, together with the overlying and underlying acid and acid-intermediate volcanic rocks, is included into the Tiaoqishan Formation.