Email this article Middle Jurassic Plant Diversity and Climate in the Ordos Basin, China
- Authors: Yun-Feng Li 1,2, Wang H.3, Dilcher D.L.1,2,4, Bugdaeva E.5, Tan X.1,2,4, Li T.1,2, Na Y.1,2, Sun C.1,2
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Affiliations:
- Key Laboratory for Evolution of Past Life and Environment in Northeast Asia, Jilin University
- Research Center of Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, Jilin University
- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida
- Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Indiana University
- Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: Vol 53, No 11 (2019)
- Pages: 1216-1235
- Section: Article
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0031-0301/article/view/169117
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030119110091
- ID: 169117
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Abstract
The Ordos Basin is one of the largest continental sedimentary basins and it represents one major and famous production area of coal, oil and gas resources in China. The Jurassic non-marine deposits are well developed and cropped out in the basin. The Middle Jurassic Yan’an Formation is rich in coal and contains diverse plant remains. We recognize 40 species in 25 genera belonging to mosses, horsetails, ferns, cycadophytes, ginkgoaleans, czekanowskialeans and conifers. This flora is attributed to the early Middle Jurassic Epoch, possibly the Aalenian-Bajocian. The climate of the Ordos Basin during the Middle Jurassic was warm and humid with seasonal temperature and precipitation fluctuations. The result tends to support the palaeophytogeographic/palaeoclimatic setting of the Ordos Basin in the North Floristic Province, or the North Chinese Province in the warm temperate zone during the Middle Jurassic.
About the authors
Yun-Feng Li
Key Laboratory for Evolution of Past Life and Environment in Northeast Asia, Jilin University; Research Center of Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, Jilin University
Author for correspondence.
Email: liyunfeng@jlu.edu.cn
China, Changchun, Jilin, 130026; Changchun, Jilin, 130026
Hongshan Wang
Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida
Email: clsun@jlu.edu.cn
United States, Gainesville, Florida, 32611
David L. Dilcher
Key Laboratory for Evolution of Past Life and Environment in Northeast Asia, Jilin University; Research Center of Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, Jilin University; Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Indiana University
Email: clsun@jlu.edu.cn
China, Changchun, Jilin, 130026; Changchun, Jilin, 130026; Bloomington, Indiana, 47405
E. Bugdaeva
Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: clsun@jlu.edu.cn
Russian Federation, Vladivostok, 690022
Xiao Tan
Key Laboratory for Evolution of Past Life and Environment in Northeast Asia, Jilin University; Research Center of Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, Jilin University; Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Indiana University
Email: clsun@jlu.edu.cn
China, Changchun, Jilin, 130026; Changchun, Jilin, 130026; Bloomington, Indiana, 47405
Tao Li
Key Laboratory for Evolution of Past Life and Environment in Northeast Asia, Jilin University; Research Center of Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, Jilin University
Email: clsun@jlu.edu.cn
China, Changchun, Jilin, 130026; Changchun, Jilin, 130026
Yu-Ling Na
Key Laboratory for Evolution of Past Life and Environment in Northeast Asia, Jilin University; Research Center of Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, Jilin University
Email: clsun@jlu.edu.cn
China, Changchun, Jilin, 130026; Changchun, Jilin, 130026
Chun-Lin Sun
Key Laboratory for Evolution of Past Life and Environment in Northeast Asia, Jilin University; Research Center of Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, Jilin University
Author for correspondence.
Email: clsun@jlu.edu.cn
China, Changchun, Jilin, 130026; Changchun, Jilin, 130026
