The exceptionally preserved Early Cretaceous "Moqi Fauna" from eastern Inner Mongolia, China, and its age relationship with the Jehol Biota

被引:7
作者
Yu, Zhiqiang [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Dong, Liping [1 ,2 ]
Huyskens, Magdalena H. [4 ]
Yin, Qing-Zhu [4 ]
Wang, Yuan [1 ,2 ]
Deng, Chenglong [3 ]
He, Huaiyu [3 ]
机构
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origin, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China
[2] CAS Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironment, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China
[3] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geol & Geophys, State Key Lab Lithospher Evolut, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China
[4] Univ Calif Davis, Dept Earth & Planetary Sci, Davis, CA 95616 USA
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
Early Cretaceous; Moqi Fauna; Conservationlagerstatten; Geochronology; GREATER KHINGAN MOUNTAINS; U-PB AGE; SONGLIAO BASIN; LONGJIANG FORMATION; FUXIN FORMATIONS; VOLCANIC-ROCKS; ICP-MS; GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; NENJIANG FORMATION; SHAHEZI FORMATION;
D O I
10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110824
中图分类号
P9 [自然地理学];
学科分类号
0705 ; 070501 ;
摘要
New fossil-bearing horizons at the Gezidong and Jiaxikou localities, eastern Inner Mongolia, referred to as the Moqi fossil bed, yield a diverse fossil assemblage coined herein as "Moqi Fauna". The Moqi Fauna provides important insights into the evolution of some vertebrate clades, such as frogs and salamanders, and their Early Cretaceous diversification. In this paper, we report an improved chronology of the Moqi fossil bed based on SIMS and high-precision CA-ID-IRMS U-Pb zircon analyses of three tuff samples from horizons that are interstratified with the fossil-bearing layer at two localities. The SIMS U-Pb dating method applied on zircons from three samples gave dates of 117.8 +/- 0.9/1.5 Ma, 117.7 +/- 1.0/1.5 Ma, and 118.3 +/- 1.2/1.7 Ma, respectively. Two high-precision CA-ID-IRMS U-Pb weighted mean Pb-206/U-238 ages of, 119.20 +/- 0.38/0.38/0.72 Ma and 118.67 +/- 0.13/0.14/0.28 Ma were also obtained. These findings indicate the age of the Moqi Fauna is ca. 119.20 Ma to 118.67 Ma. Comparison of the Moqi Fauna with the well-known Jehol Biota, as well as the Fuxin Biota of a slightly younger age, suggests that the Moqi Fauna was a distinct fauna which shows a potential link with the Jehol Biota.
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