The Jehol Biota: Definition and distribution of exceptionally preserved relicts of a continental Early Cretaceous ecosystem

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	The Jehol Biota: Definition and distribution of exceptionally preserved relicts of a continental Early Cretaceous ecosystem
	Pan, Yanhong 1; Sha, Jingeng 1; Zhou, Zhonghe2 ; Fuersich, Franz T.3; yhpan@nigpas.ac.cn
刊名	CRETACEOUS RESEARCH
	2013-08-01
卷号	44 期号:0 页码:30-38
关键词	Jehol Biota Palaeoecology Taphonomy Konservat-lagerstatten Jehol Group Early Cretaceous Northeastern China
ISSN号	0195-6671
文献子类	Article
英文摘要	Fossils from the "Jehol Biota" have been studied for nearly 90 years, and the term "Jehol Biota" has been extensively used and is well known today, largely thanks to the discovery of feathered dinosaurs, angiosperms, and numerous other exceptionally preserved fossils in the Lower Cretaceous of northeastern China. Ironically, however, what exactly the Jehol Biota represents and how it is defined has hardly been discussed. The lack of a precise definition of the Jehol Biota has hindered our understanding of such important issues as its palaeodiversity, its spatial and temporal distribution, and the pattern of radiation of the biota. In this paper, we propose that the Jehol Biota is defined by using a palaeoecological concept, and by combining ecological and taphonomic aspects, i.e., as organisms that lived in the Early Cretaceous volcanic-influenced environments of northeastern China, and were buried in lacustrine and rarely fluvial sediments, where most turned into exceptionally preserved fossils. The relationship between the Jehol Biota and the Jehol Group is also clarified. According to the revised definition, the Jehol Biota is so far only discovered in deposits of the Yixian and Jiufotang formations of western Liaoning, adjacent Inner Mongolia, and northern Hebei, and the Huajiying Formation of northern Hebei. Temporally it ranges from the Barremian to Aptian, i.e., for at least 10 Ma (130-120 Ma). (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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WOS关键词	SOFT-TISSUE PRESERVATION ; NORTHEAST CHINA ; FEATHERED DINOSAURS ; YIXIAN FORMATION ; LIAONING PROVINCE ; FOSSIL EVIDENCE ; INNER-MONGOLIA ; AGE ; BIRDS ; LAGERSTATTEN
WOS研究方向	Geology ; Paleontology
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000321315800003
公开日期	2013-11-27
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4130]
专题	古脊椎动物与古人类研究所_古低等脊椎动物研究室
通讯作者	yhpan@nigpas.ac.cn
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Nanjing Inst Geol & Palaeontol, State Key Lab Palaeontol & Stratig, Nanjing 21008, Jiangsu, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Evolutionary Systemat Vertebrates, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 3.Univ Erlangen Nurnberg, FG Palaoumwelt, GeoZentrum Nordbayern, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Pan, Yanhong,Sha, Jingeng,Zhou, Zhonghe,et al. The Jehol Biota: Definition and distribution of exceptionally preserved relicts of a continental Early Cretaceous ecosystem[J]. CRETACEOUS RESEARCH,2013,44(0):30-38.
APA	Pan, Yanhong,Sha, Jingeng,Zhou, Zhonghe,Fuersich, Franz T.,&yhpan@nigpas.ac.cn.(2013).The Jehol Biota: Definition and distribution of exceptionally preserved relicts of a continental Early Cretaceous ecosystem.CRETACEOUS RESEARCH,44(0),30-38.
MLA	Pan, Yanhong,et al."The Jehol Biota: Definition and distribution of exceptionally preserved relicts of a continental Early Cretaceous ecosystem".CRETACEOUS RESEARCH 44.0(2013):30-38.