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Subject(s)

• Paleontology—Mesozoic [Browse]
• Paleontology—East Asia [Browse]
• Geology, Stratigraphic—Mesozoic [Browse]

Editor

• Chang, S.-C. [Browse]
• Zheng, D. [Browse]

Series

• Geological Society special publication ; no. 521. [More in this series]
• Geological Society special publication ; 521 [More in this series]

Summary note

Mesozoic Biological Events and Ecosystems in East Asia covers a wide range of topics, encompassing palaeoenvironments, palaeoecosystems and important vertebrate, invertebrate and plant fossils, some found in amber with excellent preservation of delicate morphological features. Fifty-three authors from a number of different disciplines - geochronology, palaeontology, stratigraphy, sedimentology, tectonics and geochemistry - contribute to the 18 articles in the volume. Well-preserved fossils and rocks continue to be found from marine and terrestrial sediments across East Asia. Over some years, the palaeontological and geological evidence discovered from this region has significantly improved our understanding of Mesozoic environments. In discussing feathered dinosaurs, primitive birds, early mammals, diverse insects, amber inclusions, the oldest-known flowers and research utilizing new, advanced methods, this volume explores Earth's history in even greater detail. What other exciting discoveries are waiting to be unveiled in the future?

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Mesozoic biological events and ecosystems in East Asia : introduction / Chang, S.-C and Zheng, D.
• Clues and evidence from vertebrate fossils
• First evidence for tooth-tooth occlusion in a ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota / Zhou, C.-F., Wang, X. and Wang, J.
• The reproductive biology of oviraptorosaurs : a synthesis / Yang, T.-R. and Sander, P. M.
• New prospects on the cranial evolution of non-avialan paravian theropods based on geometric morphometrics / Pei, R. and Xu, X.
• Clues and evidence from invertebrate and plant fossils
• A review of Triassic insects in China / Zhang, Q., Zheng, D., Wang, B. and Zhang, H.
• True hopper fossils (Fulgoromorpha and Cicadomorpha) in the Jurassic to Cretaceous of eastern Asia and their evolutionary implications / Chen, J.
• A Jurassic flower bud from China / Cui, D.-F., Hou, Y., Yin, P. and Wang, X-- A Late Triassic vegetation record from the Huangshanjien Formation, Junggar Basin, China : possible evidence for the Carnian Pluvial Episode / Peng, J., Slater, S. M. and Vajda, V.
• Clam shrimp of the Middle-Late Jurassic Yanliao Biota in China / Liao, H.
• Ostracods from the Pingyi Basin (eastern China) and their significance for the K/Pg boundary / Wang, H., Du, S., Yu, T., Li, S., Lu, H., Zhang, H., Cao, M. and Horne, D. J.
• Significant fossils from amber
• New record of Zhangsolva Nagatomi and Yang, 1998 (Diptera, Zhangsolvidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber and its implications / Zhang, Q. and Zhang, J.
• New material for Peleserphidae (Proctotrupoidea, Hymenoptera) in Mid-Cretaceous Burmese (Kachin) amber / Yu, Y., Hu, G., Zhu, Y., Li, Y., Jiang, W., Rasnitsyn, A. P., Zhang, H. and Zhang, Q.
• New data on gastropod genus Hirsuticyclus (Caenogastropoda, Cyclophoridae) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber / Yu, T-- Is the beetle Omma (Insecta: Coleoptera) a living fossil? / Jarzembowski, E. A., Zheng, D. and Zhao, X.
• Protohemiphlebiidae fam. nov., a stem hemiphlebioid damselfly from Cretaceous amber in Kachin / Zheng, D., Jarzembowski, E. A., Zhuo, D. and Nel, A.
• Paleoenvironments and paleoecosystems
• Carbon cycle perturbation and mercury anomalies in terrestrial Oceanic Anoxic Event 1b from Jiuquan Basin, NW China / Zhao, X., Zheng, D., Wang, H., Fang, Y., Xue, N. and Zhang, H.
• Estimates of late Albian atmospheric CO2 based on stomata of Pseudofrenelopsis from Jilin Province, NE China / Li, T., Yang, X.-J. and Zhu, Y.-B.
• Jehol fossils from the Jiaolai Basin of Shandong, North China : review and new perspectives / Wang, J., Zhou, C.-F., Jourdan, F. and Chang, S.-C.
• Detrital zircon geochronology of Late Cretaceous successions in the Ganzhou Basin, South China : evidence of a major tectonic transition / Wang, J., Yuan, Y., Zhang, D. and Chang, S.-C.

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ISBN

• 178620567X
• 9781786205674

OCLC

1337403578

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