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Devonian spores from an intra-oceanic volcanic arc, West Junggar (Xinjiang, China) and the palaeogeographical significance of the associated fossil plant beds

Devonian spores from an intra-oceanic volcanic arc, West Junggar (Xinjiang, China) and the palaeogeographical significance of the associated fossil plant beds
Devonian spores from an intra-oceanic volcanic arc, West Junggar (Xinjiang, China) and the palaeogeographical significance of the associated fossil plant beds
Devonian spores were systematically studied from four sections (251 Hill, G217 Highway, Hujiersite and Gannaren) in West Junggar, North Xinjiang, China. All four sections belong to, or are equivalent to, the Upper Member of the Hujiersite Formation, from which abundant plant macrofossils have also been reported. These spores enable us, for the first time, to date these fossil plant beds as from late Emsian to Frasnian in age. The plant localities are all from a Devonian volcanic terrain and have a lycopsid-dominant flora. These lycopsid plants have near global Devonian distributions and are hence the most mobile elements among the contemporary floras. In the upper part of the sequence (Givetian/Frasnian) very rare progymnosperms (both spores and some megafossils) were found. The West Junggar shows a different palynological assemblage from that of the East Junggar and is palaeogeographycally significant.
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Xu, Hong-He
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Marshall, John E.A.
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Berry, Christopher M.
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Xu, Hong-He, Marshall, John E.A., Wang, Yi, Zhu, Huai-Cheng, Berry, Christopher M. and Wellman, Charles H. (2014) Devonian spores from an intra-oceanic volcanic arc, West Junggar (Xinjiang, China) and the palaeogeographical significance of the associated fossil plant beds. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 206, 10-22. (doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2014.03.002).

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Devonian spores were systematically studied from four sections (251 Hill, G217 Highway, Hujiersite and Gannaren) in West Junggar, North Xinjiang, China. All four sections belong to, or are equivalent to, the Upper Member of the Hujiersite Formation, from which abundant plant macrofossils have also been reported. These spores enable us, for the first time, to date these fossil plant beds as from late Emsian to Frasnian in age. The plant localities are all from a Devonian volcanic terrain and have a lycopsid-dominant flora. These lycopsid plants have near global Devonian distributions and are hence the most mobile elements among the contemporary floras. In the upper part of the sequence (Givetian/Frasnian) very rare progymnosperms (both spores and some megafossils) were found. The West Junggar shows a different palynological assemblage from that of the East Junggar and is palaeogeographycally significant.

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Accepted/In Press date: April 2014
Published date: July 2014
Organisations: Paleooceanography & Palaeoclimate

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Local EPrints ID: 364157
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/364157
ISSN: 0034-6667
PURE UUID: 5bf98bd7-99b2-4698-8357-13ffbd7807f1
ORCID for John E.A. Marshall: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9242-3646

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Date deposited: 07 Apr 2014 10:35
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:35

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Author: Hong-He Xu
Author: Yi Wang
Author: Huai-Cheng Zhu
Author: Christopher M. Berry
Author: Charles H. Wellman

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