Early Carboniferous brachiopod fauna from the Altai Mountains, northern Xinjiang, Central Asia: Systematics, and palaeobiogeographic and palaeogeographical implications

doi:10.1002/gj.4118

	Early Carboniferous brachiopod fauna from the Altai Mountains, northern Xinjiang, Central Asia: Systematics, and palaeobiogeographic and palaeogeographical implications
	Guo, Zhen 1; Chen, Zhong-Qiang 1; Liao, Zhuoting 2
刊名	GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL
	2021-03-08
页码	22
关键词	Altaid collage brachiopods Central Asia Early Carboniferous palaeobiogeography
ISSN号	0072-1050
DOI	10.1002/gj.4118
通讯作者	Chen, Zhong-Qiang(zhong.qiang.chen@cug.edu.cn)
英文摘要	A diverse brachiopod fauna, comprising 37 species in 35 genera, is described from the Hongshanzui Formation of the Chinese Altai Mountains area, northern Xinjiang, north-western China. A new species Xinjiangiproductus? junggarensis sp. nov. is erected. Faunal correlation constrains the Altai brachiopod fauna and its bearing formation as Tournaisian (Early Carboniferous) in age. The Altai brachiopod fauna is dominated by the Siberian elements that are also very common in the Kuznetsk Basin, Siberia, implying the same palaeobiogeographic province. In contrast, it shares much fewer species with the coeval assemblages reported from the Junggar terranes, suggesting a different palaeobiogeographic province from the latter. Moreover, the Altai fauna appears with high similarities to the coeval faunas reported from the Baoshan Block of western Yunnan, south-western China, and, to a lesser context, resembles coeval faunas documented from north-eastern Japan, North American mid-continent, and Australia. In contrast, it shares very few elements with those reported from the Qaidam Basin, Tarim Basin, and South China. The rather high faunal affinity between the Altai area and Kuznetsk Basin indicates that these two regions were likely apart closely to one another during the Tournaisian, implying that the Altai area may have accreted to the Siberian Craton prior to the Tournaisian. The low faunal affinity between the western Junggar and Altai areas reveals that they both did not belong to the same palaeobiogeographic province, and the western Junggar terrane did not accrete to the Altaids, at least in the Tournaisian.
资助项目	Higher Education Discipline Innovation Project[BP0820004] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41772007] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41821001] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41930322]
WOS研究方向	Geology
语种	英语
出版者	WILEY
WOS记录号	WOS:000626560700001
资助机构	Higher Education Discipline Innovation Project ; National Natural Science Foundation of China
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.nigpas.ac.cn/handle/332004/38658]
专题	中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所
通讯作者	Chen, Zhong-Qiang
作者单位	1.China Univ Geosci Wuhan, State Key Lab Biogeol & Environm Geol, 388 Lumo Rd, Wuhan 430074, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Nanjing Inst Geol & Palaeontol, Nanjing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Guo, Zhen,Chen, Zhong-Qiang,Liao, Zhuoting. Early Carboniferous brachiopod fauna from the Altai Mountains, northern Xinjiang, Central Asia: Systematics, and palaeobiogeographic and palaeogeographical implications[J]. GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL,2021:22.
APA	Guo, Zhen,Chen, Zhong-Qiang,&Liao, Zhuoting.(2021).Early Carboniferous brachiopod fauna from the Altai Mountains, northern Xinjiang, Central Asia: Systematics, and palaeobiogeographic and palaeogeographical implications.GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL,22.
MLA	Guo, Zhen,et al."Early Carboniferous brachiopod fauna from the Altai Mountains, northern Xinjiang, Central Asia: Systematics, and palaeobiogeographic and palaeogeographical implications".GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL (2021):22.