Dinosaur Egg Faunas of the Upper Cretaceous Terrestrial Red Beds of China and Their Stratigraphical Significance
详细信息
- 责任者：Wang Xiaolin (Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates ; Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology ; Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Beijing 100044 ; China) ; Wang Qiang
- 刊名：Journal of Stratigraphy
- 出版年：2012
- 卷期：36(2)
- 关键词：晚白垩世 ; Upper Cretaceous ; 恐龙蛋 ; dinosaur eggs ; 生物地层学 ; biostratigraphy ; 中国 ; China
- 页码：p.400-416
- 图表：8 illus., 1 table, 96 refs.
- 分类号：1200
- issnNo：ISSN0253-4959
- isbnNo：CN32-1187/P
摘要
By
studying the lithostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy and dinosaur egg
biostratigraphy of the Tiantai Basin, this paper presents preliminary
comparisons among the dinosaur egg faunas and strata of the major Chinese
basins in which dinosaur eggs have been found. These comparisons show that the
dinosaur egg fauna of the Tiantai Basin is the oldest, and is successively
followed by younger faunas from the Xixia, Laiyang and Nanxiong basins.
Compared against the overall stratigraphic framework of the Upper Cretaceous
terrestrial red beds of China, the strata of these four basins are early, early-middle,
middle-late and late Late Cretaceous in age, respectively.