New U-Pb zircon ages document Late Triassic Tianqiaoling flora of eastern Jinlin,NE China

作     者：Yuhui FENG Tao YANG Fei LIANG Ge SUN Yuhui FENG;Tao YANG;Fei LIANG;Ge SUN

作者机构：Key Lab of Evolution of Past Life in NE AsiaMinistry of Natural ResourcesShenyang Normal UniversityShenyang 110034China College of PaleontologyShenyang Normal UniversityShenyang 110034China Key Lab for Evolution of Past Life and Environment in NE AsiaMinistry of EducationJilin UniversityChangchun 130026China 

出 版 物：《Science China Earth Sciences》 (中国科学（地球科学英文版）)

年 卷 期：2021年第64卷第5期

页      面：807-812页

核心收录：

学科分类：070903[理学-古生物学与地层学(含：古人类学)] 0709[理学-地质学] 07[理学] 0708[理学-地球物理学] 0704[理学-天文学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41072011) the Education Department of Liaoning Province(Grant No.LQN201916) the Scientific Research Foundation of Shenyang Normal University,China(Grant No.BS201911)。 

主　　题：Late Triassic Tianqiaoling flora U-Pb zircon NE China 

摘      要：The Late Triassic Tianqiaoling flora is well-known in China,and its discovery has changed our understanding of Chinese Late Triassic phytogeographical divisions.More broadly,this flora has great significance for the study of phytogeography in East Asia during this time.However,the previous dating of this flora was only evidenced by plant fossils and stratigraphic correlation,and the accurate dating has still not been achieved.In this study,rhyolite samples were collected from the bottom of the Tianqiaoling Formation,which is conformally contacted the Tianqiaoling flora-bearing beds.The results of new U-Pb dating gave ages for the rhyolites of 212.8±2.5 Ma,indicating the end of Malugou Formation and initial Tianqiaoling Formation in deposition occurred in the late Norian(~227–208.5 Ma),which is contemporaneous with the peak of the Tianqiaoling flora in development.Our radiometric dating results are basically consistent with paleobiological evidence.The new age provides a key anchor point for regional stratigraphic correlation of the Tianqiaoling flora with its related Late Triassic floras,and contribute to a better understanding of the geology and phytogeography in the East Asia,particularly in thetriangle regioncovering the eastern Jilin(China),South Primorye(Russia)and Southwest Japan,during the Late Triassic.