Extremely rapid, yet noncatastrophic, preservation of the flattened- feathered and 3D dinosaurs of the Early Cretaceous of China

doi:10.1073/pnas.2322875121

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	Extremely rapid, yet noncatastrophic, preservation of the flattened- feathered and 3D dinosaurs of the Early Cretaceous of China
通讯作者	Maclennan, Scott A.([email protected]) ; Sha, Jingeng([email protected]) ; Olsen, Paul E.([email protected])
	Maclennan, Scott A.1,2; Sha, Jingeng3 ; Olsen, Paul E.4; Kinney, Sean T.4; Chang, Clara 4; Fang, Yanan ; Liu, Jun 5; Slibeck, Bennett B.4; Chen, Elaine ; Schoene, Blair 2
	2024-11-19
发表期刊	PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ISSN	0027-8424
卷号	121 期号:47 页码:7
摘要	Northeast China's Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation preserves spectacular fossils that have proved extraordinarily important in testing evolutionary hypotheses involving the origin of birds and the distribution of feathers among nonavian dinosaurs. These fossils occur either flattened with soft tissue preservation (including feathers and color) in laminated lacustrine strata or as three-dimensional (3D) skeletons in "life-like" postures in more massive deposits. The relationships of these deposits to each other, their absolute ages, and the origin of the extraordinary fossil preservation have been vigorously debated for nearly a half century, with the prevailing view being that preservation was linked to violent volcanic eruptions or lahars, similar to processes that preserved human remains at Pompeii. We present high-precision zircon U-Pb geochronology from cores and outcrops, demonstrating that Yixian Formation accumulation rates are more than an order of magnitude higher than usually estimated. Additionally, we provide zircon provenance and sedimentological data from 3D dinosaur fossils, which imply that their death and burial occurred in collapsed burrows, rather than via a catastrophic volcanogenic mechanism. In the studied area, the three principal fossil-rich intervals of the Yixian occur as a cyclic sequence that correspond to periods of high precipitation. Using Bayesian-Markov Chain Monte Carlo approaches, we constrain the total duration of the sequence to less than similar to 93,000 y and suggest that climatic precession paced the expression of these cyclic sediments. Rather than representing multiple, Pompeii-like catastrophes, the Yixian Formation is instead a brief snapshot of normal life and death in an Early Cretaceous continental community.
关键词	Jehol Biota Early Cretaceous U-Pb geochronology lacustrine astrochronology taphonomy
DOI	10.1073/pnas.2322875121
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
关键词[WOS]	JEHOL BIOTA ; YIXIAN FORMATION ; RECORD ; CLIMATE ; ERUPTIONS ; VESUVIUS ; BEHAVIOR ; TROPICS ; DEATH ; SCALE
资助项目	Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences ; National Committee of Stratigraphy of China[DD20190009] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[91114201] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41730317] ; Heising-Simons Foundation ; E.C. The Lamont Climate Center
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:001369283400001
项目资助者	Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences ; National Committee of Stratigraphy of China ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Heising-Simons Foundation ; E.C. The Lamont Climate Center
出版者	NATL ACAD SCIENCES
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.nigpas.ac.cn/handle/332004/44664
专题	中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所
通讯作者	Maclennan, Scott A.; Sha, Jingeng; Olsen, Paul E.
作者单位	1.Univ Witwatersrand, Sch Geosci, ZA-2017 Johannesburg, South Africa 2.Princeton Univ, Dept Geosci, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA 3.Nanjing Inst Geol & Palaeontol, State Key Lab Palaeobiol & Stratig, Nanjing 210008, Peoples R China 4.Columbia Univ, Lamont Doherty Earth Observ, Biol & Paleo Environm, Palisades, NY 10964 USA 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Dept Paleoichthyol & Paleoherpetol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China
通讯作者单位	中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Maclennan, Scott A.,Sha, Jingeng,Olsen, Paul E.,et al. Extremely rapid, yet noncatastrophic, preservation of the flattened- feathered and 3D dinosaurs of the Early Cretaceous of China[J]. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,2024,121(47):7.
APA	Maclennan, Scott A..,Sha, Jingeng.,Olsen, Paul E..,Kinney, Sean T..,Chang, Clara.,...&Schoene, Blair.(2024).Extremely rapid, yet noncatastrophic, preservation of the flattened- feathered and 3D dinosaurs of the Early Cretaceous of China.PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,121(47),7.
MLA	Maclennan, Scott A.,et al."Extremely rapid, yet noncatastrophic, preservation of the flattened- feathered and 3D dinosaurs of the Early Cretaceous of China".PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 121.47(2024):7.