Repeated occurrence of palaeo-wildfires during deposition of the Bahariya Formation(early Cenomanian) of Egypt

作     者：Haytham El Atfy Tarek Anan Andre Jasper Dieter Uhl 

作者机构：Department of GeologyFaculty of ScienceMansoura UniversityMansoura 35516Egypt Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Ambiente e DesenvolvimentoPPGADUniversidade do Vale do Taquari UnivatesLajeadoRio Grande do SulBrazil Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum60325 Frankfurt am MainGermany Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and PalaeoenvironmentTubingen University72076 TubingenGermany 

出 版 物：《Journal of Palaeogeography》 (古地理学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2019年第8卷第4期

页      面：332-345页

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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] 

基　　金：support by Coordenadoria de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior-CAPES(A072/2013 and 8107-14-9) Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico-CNPq(444330/2014-3,305436/2015-5) Brazil and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation(3.4-8151/18 025),Germany 

主　　题：Bahariya Oasis Gabal El Dist Charcoal Wildfire Dinosaurs Upper Cretaceous Early Cenomanian Egypt 

摘      要：The Upper Cretaceous(early Cenomanian)Bahariya Formation of Egypt has an outstanding reputation for its wealth of vertebrate remains,including a variety of iconic dinosaurs,like the carnivorous Spinosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus,as well as the herbivorous Aegyptosaurus and *** these dinosaur fossils,the Bahariya Formation yielded also a wealth of invertebrate and plant remains,but even today many aspects concerning the continental palaeoenvironments reflected in these deposits(including the occurrence of palaeo-wildfires)have not been studied in *** far six distinct macro-charcoal bearing levels could be identified within the type section of the Bahariya Formation at Gabal El Dist profile,one of the most prolific outcrops of this formation in terms of fossil occurrence located in the north of the Bahariya Oasis,Western Desert,*** of the charcoal investigated by means of SEM originates from ferns,pointing to a considerable proportion of this plant group within the palaeo-ecosystems that experienced *** and(putative)angiosperms have less frequently been *** collected data present evidence that the landscapes at the northern shores of Gondwana repeatedly experienced palaeo-wildfires,adding extra proof to previous statements that the Late Cretaceous was a fiery world on a global scale.