Cretaceous Stratigraphy, Paleoenvironment and Terrestrial Biota in Shandong Province
- 1 Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China
- 2 Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China
- 3 Shandong Institute of Geological Survey, Jinan, China
- 4 Shandong Institute of Geological Survey, Jinan, China
- 5 Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China
Abstract
The terrestrial upper Jurassic-Cretaceous (upper and lower)-Cenozoic stratigraphic succession developed continuously in Shandong province. There are intact and continuous terrestrial paleoecosystems dominated by dinosaurs, including five vertebrate fauna (bone fossil assemblages) beds from the bottom to top in the Cretaceous successions of Shandong Province. There are multiple vertebrate footprints (group) bearing beds in the transition period between Jurassic-Cretaceous and Early Cretaceous, and multiple large-scale dinosaur burial bone beds in Late Cretaceous. In recent years, it has also been found that extraterrestrial impact geological event may occur in the K/Pg transition over a hundred meters (siliceous pellet and gamma element anomalies, etc.). Shandong has a well-developed terrestrial Cretaceous succession with perfect information on paleoenvironment and paleoecology, which is an ideal area to explore the co-evolutionary relationship between terrestrial biota and paleoenvironment.
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