First results of the biostratigraphy and geochronology of the classic Nihewan Fauna, China

doi:10.3389/feart.2023.1276816

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	First results of the biostratigraphy and geochronology of the classic Nihewan Fauna, China
	Farjand, Arya 1; Zhang, Zhaoqun2,3 ; Gibbard, Philip L.4; Bi, Shundong 1,5
	2023-10-10
发表期刊	FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE
卷号	11 页码:15
通讯作者	Farjand, Arya(aryafarjand@ynu.edu.cn) ; Zhang, Zhaoqun(zhangzhaoqun@ivpp.ac.cn)
摘要	The Nihewan Basin is infilled by a relatively complete Pliocene to Pleistocene sequence, rich mammalian fossils and containing many Palaeolithic artefacts, implying that it is a unique location for Quaternary multidisciplinary study. Fossil excavations in these deposits have been carried out for nearly a century. The systematic study of the fossils by Teilhard de Chardin and Piveteau in 1930 laid the foundations for the classic Nihewan Faunal assemblage, which has been widely followed as a standard for the Early Pleistocene biochronology in eastern Asia. With the availability of magnetostratigraphic analyses on several sections in the Nihewan basin, a comprehensive geochronological study is timely pending. Here we report the results of a comprehensive survey of the Xiashagou section, where the classic Nihewan Fauna was discovered. By synthesising the lithostratigraphical, biostratigraphical, and magnetostratigraphical information, together with measurements taken by the authors, the total thickness of the Nihewan Formation in the Xiashagou section being 116 m. Furthermore, the geochronological study demonstrates that the classic Nihewan Fauna was originally recovered from at least 6 fossil horizons, spanning from similar to 2.4 Ma to similar to 1.8 Ma, i.e., the early Early Pleistocene. The new evidence from the Xiashagou section also suggests several cycles of fluctuations in the biodiversity and population of the classic Nihewan Fauna during the early Pleistocene. The preliminary correlation of these cycles matches the short periods of glaciation in the early Pleistocene.
关键词	Nihewan Basin classic Nihewan Fauna Nihewan Formation Xiashagou early pleistocene biostratigraphy
DOI	10.3389/feart.2023.1276816
关键词[WOS]	PLEISTOCENE MAMMALIAN FOSSILS ; NORTH CHINA ; PALEOLITHIC SITES ; MAMMUTHUS-TROGONTHERII ; LITHIC TECHNOLOGY ; BASIN ; SHANSHENMIAOZUI ; EVOLUTION ; YUXIAN ; HOMININ
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This research was carried out with a funding number 2014FY110300 grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China and Yunnan Sc[2014FY110300] ; Ministry of Science and Technology of China and Yunnan Science and Technology Champion Project[202305AB350006]
项目资助者	The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This research was carried out with a funding number 2014FY110300 grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China and Yunnan Sc ; Ministry of Science and Technology of China and Yunnan Science and Technology Champion Project
WOS研究方向	Geology
WOS类目	Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:001087841200001
出版者	FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/22977
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Farjand, Arya; Zhang, Zhaoqun
作者单位	1.Yunnan Univ, Ctr Vertebrate Evolutionary Biol, Sch Life Sci, Kunming, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Palaeoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Earth & Planetary Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 4.Univ Cambridge, Scott Polar Res Inst, Cambridge, England 5.Indiana Univ Penn, Dept Biol, Indiana, PA USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Farjand, Arya,Zhang, Zhaoqun,Gibbard, Philip L.,et al. First results of the biostratigraphy and geochronology of the classic Nihewan Fauna, China[J]. FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE,2023,11:15.
APA	Farjand, Arya,Zhang, Zhaoqun,Gibbard, Philip L.,&Bi, Shundong.(2023).First results of the biostratigraphy and geochronology of the classic Nihewan Fauna, China.FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE,11,15.
MLA	Farjand, Arya,et al."First results of the biostratigraphy and geochronology of the classic Nihewan Fauna, China".FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE 11(2023):15.