An exceptionally preserved Lower Cretaceous ecosystem

By Zhonghe Zhou, Paul M. Barrett, J. Hilton. Nature, 2003

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Paleontology

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Evolutionary radiation of the Jehol Biota: chronological and ecological perspectives (2006, methodology): “In addition, many dinosaurian, mammalian or amphibian groups in the Jehol Biota also showed cosmopolitan distribution (Li et al. 2003; Zhou et al. 2003).”
Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history (2015, neutral): “Hence, we place the soft maximum constraint for Marsupialia at the Liaoning beds that produced Sinodelphys, correlating to the Barremian (Zhou et al., 2003) with a lower bound of 130.”
Cretaceous tetrapod fossil record sampling and faunal turnover: Implications for biogeography and the rise of modern clades (2013, background): “Slightly younger faunas, such as the Barremian–Aptian Jehol Biota Lagerstätten of China, suggest a more distinctive Asian fauna lacking rhynchocephalians, and including ‘advanced’ clades such as metatherian and eutherian mammals as rare components (Zhou et al., 2003; Zhou and Wang, 2010).”
Towards a unified science of cultural evolution. (2006, background): “For example, Zhou et al. (2003) describe exceptionally well-preserved fossils from north-eastern China from the Early Cretaceous period, the forms of which support the theories that birds are direct descendants of the dinosaurs, that feathers evolved before flight, and that there was rapid adaptive…”
The Jehol Biota, an Early Cretaceous terrestrial Lagerstätte: new discoveries and implications (2014, background): “, birds, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and lizards) were transported to the Jehol lake and were preserved so well together with aquatic animals (abundant fish, choristoderes) in the first (and most common) type of Jehol deposit, while the second type of deposit seems now to have been obviously caused by la”
A boreal early cradle of Angiosperms? Angiosperm-like pollen from the Middle Triassic of the Barents Sea (Norway) (2004, background): “According to new data, especially from isotope studies, the famous fossil site of Liaoning, China, which yielded Archaefructus macrofossils and pollen together with feathered reptiles and insects, has a maximum age of Barremian (Swisher III et al., 1999; Zhou et al., 2003).”
Investigating evolutionary radiations (2010, background): “Until recently, paleobiologists often despaired of being able to reconstruct bird evolution from the fossils, but spectacular discoveries from China, Spain, Argentina, and other parts of the world have enormously enhanced our knowledge, not only by adding species to the roster of fossil forms, but a”
VERTEBRATE DISPERSAL OF SEED PLANTS THROUGH TIME (2004, background): “Because of the size of the plant objects and the associated vegetation (Zhou et al. 2003), the most parsimonious suggestion is that this bird was feeding on a gymnosperm.”
Paleontological evidence to date the tree of life. (2006, background): “6MYA 6 0.1 Myr, 125.0 MYA 6 0.18 Myr, 125.2 MYA 6 0.9 Myr (Zhou et al. 2003).”
The Jehol Biota: Definition and distribution of exceptionally preserved relicts of a continental Early Cretaceous ecosystem (2013, background): “…involves a much more expanded distribution and composition, i.e. it represents a terrestrial and lacustrine biota comprising all fossils of the Lower Cretaceous Jehol Group or equivalent strata of adjacent areas in eastern and central Asia (e.g., Chang et al., 2003; Zhou et al., 2003; Zhou, 2006).”
A new diverse enantiornithine family (Bohaiornithidae fam. nov.) from the Lower Cretaceous of China with information from two new species (2014, background): “…Introduction The abundant and continuous discoveries of exquisitely preserved plant, invertebrate, and vertebrate fossils from the Lower Cretaceous of China have made the Jehol Biota one of the world’s most important Mesozoic terrestrial biomes (Chang et al., 2001; Zhou et al., 2003; Zhou, 2006).”