Stratigraphy and age of the Daohugou Bed in Ningcheng, Inner Mongolia

doi:10.1360/982005-581

	Stratigraphy and age of the Daohugou Bed in Ningcheng, Inner Mongolia
	Wang, XL ; Zhou, ZH ; He, HY ; Jin, F ; Wang, YQ ; Zhang, JY ; Wang, Y ; Xu, X ; Zhang, FC
刊名	CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN
	2005-10-01
卷号	50 期号:20 页码:2369-2376
关键词	Inner Mongolia Daohugou Bed Yixian Formation Stratigraphic Sequence Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota
ISSN号	1001-6538
DOI	10.1360/982005-581
文献子类	Article
英文摘要	Recent fieldwork has extended the distribution of the Daohugou Bed deposits from the Daohugou Village to its several neighboring areas. The fossil-bearing Daohugou deposits uncomformably overlie complex bedrocks, and comprise three major parts. The red shales in the lower part were misidentified as belonging to the Tuchengzi Formation. Field excavation has indicated that the shales of upper part of the bed are the major fossil-bearing horizon. Due to strong tectonic activities, sediments were often folded with the sequences inverted in the region. Some newly recognized contacts between the Daohugou Bed and the volcanic rocks showed that the ignimbrite of the Tiaojishan Formation (159-164 Ma) underlies the Daohugou deposits, rather than overlying the latter as previously proposed. Thus, the age of the Daohugou deposits should be younger than the age of the ignimbrite, and thus it was incorrect to correlate the Daohugou Bed with the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation. Although biostratigraphic studies based on conchostracans and insects support a Middle Jurassic-early Late Jurassic age for the Daohugou deposits, vertebrate fossils such as Liaoxittiton, Jeholopterus and feathered maniraptorans show much resemblance to those of the Yixian Formation. In other words, despite the absence of Lycoptera, a typical fish of the Jehol Biota, the Daohugou vertebrate assemblage is closer to that of the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota than to any other biota. We propose that the Daohugou fossil assemblage probably represents the earliest evolutionary stage of the Jehol Biota based on both vertebrate biostratigraphy and the sedimentological and volcanic features which suggest the Daohugou deposit belongs to the same cycle of volcanism and sedimentation as the Yixian Formation of the Jehol Group.
WOS关键词	CRETACEOUS AGE ; NORTHEAST CHINA ; PTEROSAUR ; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY ; DINOSAUR ; INSECTA ; YIXIAN ; TIME
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
语种	英语
出版者	SCIENCE PRESS
WOS记录号	WOS:000234331800019
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.iggcas.ac.cn/handle/132A11/64940]
专题	中国科学院地质与地球物理研究所
通讯作者	Wang, XL
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geol & Geophys, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, XL,Zhou, ZH,He, HY,et al. Stratigraphy and age of the Daohugou Bed in Ningcheng, Inner Mongolia[J]. CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN,2005,50(20):2369-2376.
APA	Wang, XL.,Zhou, ZH.,He, HY.,Jin, F.,Wang, YQ.,...&Zhang, FC.(2005).Stratigraphy and age of the Daohugou Bed in Ningcheng, Inner Mongolia.CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN,50(20),2369-2376.
MLA	Wang, XL,et al."Stratigraphy and age of the Daohugou Bed in Ningcheng, Inner Mongolia".CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN 50.20(2005):2369-2376.