Vertebrate fossils on the roof of the world: Biostratigraphy and geochronology of high-elevation Kunlun Pass Basin, northern Tibetan Plateau, and basin history as related to the Kunlun strike-slip fault | |
Li, Qiang1; Xie, Guangpu2; Takeuchi, Gary T.3; Deng, Tao1; Tseng, Zhijie J.4,5,6; Grohe, Camille4,6; Wang, Xiaoming1,4,5,6,7 | |
2014-10-01 | |
发表期刊 | PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY |
卷号 | 411期号:1页码:46-55 |
文章类型 | Article |
摘要 | The Kunlun Pass Basin, at the foothill of Yuzhu Mountain (6224 m asl and the highest peak of the Kunlun Range), records Plio-Pleistocene fine-grained sediments sandwiched between glacial moraines. We document a new vertebrate fossil assemblage, the Yuzhu Fauna, with 16 mammal and 2 fish species that provide insights into basin chronology as well as the paleoenvironment adjacent to alpine glaciations in the Pliocene, in which the mammals and fishes lived. The Yuzhu Fauna consists of the following eight small mammals: Petenyia sp., Aepyosciurus sp., Nannocricetus mongolicus, cf. Orientalomys sinensis, Mimomys n. sp., Prosiphneus cf. P. eriksoni, Ochotona minor, Ochotona cf. O. lagreli, and eight large mammals: Rhinocerotidae indet., Hipparion (Proboscidipparion) pater, Qurliqnoria sp., Bovidae indet., cf. Panthera blytheae, Hyaeninae indet., Vulpes qiuzhudingi, and aff. Arctomeles sp. Two cyprinid fishes are also included: Gymnocypris sp. and Triplophysa sp. The Yuzhu Fauna has a distinctly early-middle Pliocene appearance, substantially earlier than previous age estimates, sharing broad similarities with vertebrate fossil assemblages from North China in general and the Zanda Fauna in southern Tibet in particular, including three carnivorans (Vulpes qiuzhudingi, cf. Panthera blytheae, and aff. Arctomeles sp.), one artiodactyl (Qurliqnoria), and at least two rodents (Aepyosciurus and Prosiphneus) and a lagomorph (Ochotona). We re-interpret published magnetostratigraphy to arrive at a correlation of the Yuzhu Fauna to the lower part of Chron 2Ar (Gilbert Chron 4.2-3.6 Ma), and the entire basin sequence spanning part of chrons ln through 3n3n, i.e., similar to 4.9-0.5 Ma. Our revised magnetic age for the Kunlun Pass Basin strata implies a slip rate of 7.2-6.1 mm/year along this part of the Kunlun Pass strike-slip fault system, much slower than its modern rate of off set. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
关键词 | Kunlun Pass Basin Tibetan Plateau Mammals Pliocene Chronology |
WOS标题词 | Science & Technology ; Physical Sciences ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine |
关键词[WOS] | QAIDAM BASIN ; QUATERNARY ; CHINA ; CYPRINIFORMES ; GEOTRAVERSE ; EARTHQUAKE ; TECTONICS ; TELEOSTEI ; EVOLUTION ; PLIOCENE |
收录类别 | SCI |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS研究方向 | Physical Geography ; Geology ; Paleontology |
WOS类目 | Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary ; Paleontology |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000342269200005 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/5095 |
专题 | 古哺乳动物研究室 |
作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Gansu Prov Museum, Lanzhou 730050, Gansu, Peoples R China 3.George C Page Museum, Los Angeles, CA 90036 USA 4.Nat Hist Museum Los Angeles Cty, Dept Vertebrate Paleontol, Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA 5.Univ So Calif, Dept Biol Sci, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA 6.Amer Museum Nat Hist, Div Paleontol, New York, NY 10024 USA 7.Nanjing Univ, Sch Earth Sci & Engn, Nanjing 210046, Jiangsu, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Li, Qiang,Xie, Guangpu,Takeuchi, Gary T.,et al. Vertebrate fossils on the roof of the world: Biostratigraphy and geochronology of high-elevation Kunlun Pass Basin, northern Tibetan Plateau, and basin history as related to the Kunlun strike-slip fault[J]. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY,2014,411(1):46-55. |
APA | Li, Qiang.,Xie, Guangpu.,Takeuchi, Gary T..,Deng, Tao.,Tseng, Zhijie J..,...&Wang, Xiaoming.(2014).Vertebrate fossils on the roof of the world: Biostratigraphy and geochronology of high-elevation Kunlun Pass Basin, northern Tibetan Plateau, and basin history as related to the Kunlun strike-slip fault.PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY,411(1),46-55. |
MLA | Li, Qiang,et al."Vertebrate fossils on the roof of the world: Biostratigraphy and geochronology of high-elevation Kunlun Pass Basin, northern Tibetan Plateau, and basin history as related to the Kunlun strike-slip fault".PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY 411.1(2014):46-55. |
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