New Fossil Plant and Insect Records Bearing on Cretaceous Climate of Western Gobi, Mongolia

Valentin Krassilov; Dmitry Vassilenko; Alexandra Sokolova; Sophia Barinova

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New Fossil Plant and Insect Records Bearing on Cretaceous Climate of Western Gobi, Mongolia

Valentin Krassilov, Dmitry Vassilenko, Alexandra Sokolova, Sophia Barinova

Published in American Journal of Plant Biology (Volume 2, Issue 2)

Received: 30 October 2016 Accepted: 14 December 2016 Published: 22 February 2017

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Abstract

The paper examines new fossil plant and insect findings in the Cretaceous of the western Gobi as a source of climatologic inference. The isophlebiid dragonflies at the base of the Cretaceous sequence witness to an extension of the Late Jurassic climate warming to the earliest Cretaceous. Climatic fluctuations through the late Neocomian – Cenomanian are indicated by a series of paleofloristic events. The allochtonous localities of Phoenicopsis (Czekanowskiales) in the basal members of the Mogotuin Formation, Manlay depression, and Khurendukh Formation, Choyr Basin, are evidence of temperate arboreal vegetation on the bordering basement ridges. A mass occurrence of Otozamites, a thermophilic bennettitalean plant in the upper part of the Mogotuin Formation near its boundary with the redbeds of Manlay Formation heralds a xerothermic trend of climatic evolution. The first appearance of Sequoia at the top of the Barun Bayan redbeds marks reversion of the trend at about the Albian – Cenomanian boundary.

Published in	American Journal of Plant Biology (Volume 2, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajpb.20170202.11
Page(s)	43-48
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Fossil Flora, Fossil Insects, Paleoecology, Paleoclimatology, Cretaceous, Mongolia

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Valentin Krassilov; Dmitry Vassilenko; Alexandra Sokolova; Sophia Barinova. New Fossil Plant and Insect Records Bearing on Cretaceous Climate of Western Gobi, Mongolia. Am. J. Plant Biol. 2017, 2(2), 43-48. doi: 10.11648/j.ajpb.20170202.11

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Valentin Krassilov, Dmitry Vassilenko, Alexandra Sokolova, Sophia Barinova. New Fossil Plant and Insect Records Bearing on Cretaceous Climate of Western Gobi, Mongolia. Am J Plant Biol. 2017;2(2):43-48. doi: 10.11648/j.ajpb.20170202.11

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Valentin Krassilov

Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Dmitry Vassilenko

Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Alexandra Sokolova

Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Sophia Barinova

Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel

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