Dinosaur taphonomy of the Jurassic Shishugou Formation (Northern Junggar Basin, NW China) – insights from bioerosional trace fossils on bone

Augustin, Felix J.; Matzke, Andreas T.; Maisch, Michael W.; Pfretzschner, Hans-Ulrich

doi:10.1080/10420940.2021.1890590

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“…From 2000 to 2011 a series of expeditions (here referred as the Sino-American expeditions) co-led by Xu and Clark collected numerous fossil vertebrates from the Shishugou Formation, mainly at Wucaiwan but also from the two other areas. Smaller collections have been made, mainly at Jiangjunmiao, by Sino-German expeditions (Maisch et al, 2004;Tütken et al, 2004;Wings, 2015;Augustin et al, 2021) and others (e.g., Wang et al, 2019).…”

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The Shishugou Fauna of the Middle‐Late Jurassic Transition Period in the Junggar Basin of Western China

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et al. 2022

Acta Geologica Sinica (Eng)

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The Middle-Late Jurassic transition period is a critical period for the evolution of terrestrial vertebrates, but the global fossil record from this time is relatively poor. The Shishugou Fauna of this period has recently produced significant fossil remains of dinosaurs and other vertebrate groups, some representing the earliest known members of several dinosaurian groups and other vertebrate groups and some representing the best-known specimens of their group. These discoveries are significant for our understanding of the origin and evolution of several vertebrate lineages. Radiometric dating indicates that the fauna is aged approximately 159-164 Ma. Comparisons with other similarly-aged terrestrial faunas such as Shaximiao and Yanliao show both taxonomic similarities and differences between these faunas and indicate that the Junggar deposits might have preserved the most complete vertebrate fossil record for a Middle-Late Jurassic Laurasian terrestrial fauna.

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