supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41790452, 41688103, 41172037 and 41272030)
Cretaceous strata are widely distributed across China and record a variety of depositional settings. The sedimentary facies consist primarily of terrestrial, marine and interbedded marine-terrestrial deposits, of whic...
financially supported in part by funds from the State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS) (GBL215010);National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, No. 2012CB822002);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 41302008, 41172037);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (53200859490);Science and Technology Innovation Fund of the China University of Geoscience (Beijing);the Beijing Higher Education Young Elite Teacher Project (YETP0665)
The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum(PETM) event was a dramatic global warming w55.93 Ma ago that resulted in biological extinction events, lithological changes, and major deviations in σ13 C and σ18 O.The southwest...
provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41120124002 and 41172037);the Graduate School of China University of Geosciences at Beijing (201225-B3001120058);the China Scholarship Council (20133009-201306400032);the Zhucheng City Government
The close affinity between Edmontosaurus and Shantungosaurus is corroborated on the basis of the following shared features:an occipital condyle deflected strongly posteroventrally; a posterodorsally reflected, lip-sh...
supported by National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2012CB822002);National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41172037),China Geological Survey(Grant No.1212011120145);State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy(Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology,CAS)(Grant No.123111);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.2012011)
Cretaceous climate was warmer than today.The Songliao Basin contains one of the most important Late Cretaceous non-marine deposits in China for the research of the paleoenvironment and paleoclimate.This research is ba...