期刊
EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS
卷 434, 期 -, 页码 220-230出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.11.019
关键词
magnetostratigraphy; Stegodon; mammal migration; paleoenvironment; Tibetan Plateau; Late Miocene
资金
- National Basic Research Program of China [2013CB956402]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41174057, 41290253]
Lanzhou Basin lies on the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau in western China and is a rich source of Oligocene-Miocene mammalian fossils. Obtaining precise age determinations for these fossils is important to address key questions concerning mammalian and environmental evolution in Asia associated with stepwise Tibetan Plateau uplift. Here we report a new magnetostratigraphic record for the Xingjiawan fluvio-lacustrine section from the northwestern margin of Lanzhou Basin that can be correlated to the geomagnetic polarity timescale with two options. The Late Miocene Xingjiawan Fauna is located either at the boundary between reversed polarity chron C4r.lr and normal polarity chron C4n.2n or at the boundary between subchrons C5r.lr and C5n.2n, with an estimated age of at least similar to 8 Ma or perhaps as early as similar to 11 Ma. Both age estimations imply that the fossil Stegodon in the Lanzhou Basin is the oldest known record of Stegodon worldwide; it predates the formerly oldest Stegodon find from Africa by at least one million years and perhaps by as many as four million years. This provides new evidence for an Asian origin of Stegodon. Together with other faunal components, a mixed woodland/grassland setting existed in the Lanzhou Basin during the Late Miocene, in contrast to its modern arid environment. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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