Abstract The Upper Cretaceous in China is featured by fluvial deposits,such as channels and floodplains,in which abundant hadrosaur-dominated dinosaurs and dinosaur trace fossils are preserved. Whether these Late Cretaceous fluvial deposits belonged to certain large-scale paleoriver systems or not,and how the distribution pattern of paleoriver systems affected the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems,have not been well studied. In this paper,U-Pb ages of 2357 detrital zircons from nine Late Cretaceous terrestrial basins in China are collected. Based on provenance analysis on these detrital zircons,the distribution pattern of the Late Cretaceous paleoriver systems and provenance directions are discussed. The results show that there existed SW-NE oriented,large-scale river systems in southern China in the Late Cretaceous. Contrary to the eastward and southeastward drainage directions of modern river systems,the Late Cretaceous paleoriver systems drained from an inferred coastal plateau in eastern China to the west and southwest,and resulted in widespread web-like riverbank and floodplain deposits in southern China. In contrast,basins in northern China were separated by paleo-uplifts,from which most of the sediments were derived. The drainage systems of the studied basins in northern China were largely independent from each other. These complex drainage basins in northern China created many isolated habitats where a unique East Asia hadrosaur fauna evolved. In contrast,the riverine deposits of the river systems in southern China are featured by fossils of dinosaur eggs and footprints,and only few dinosaur skeleton fossils. This feature probably resulted from the hot and arid climate in southern China,which was not suitable to hadrosaur-dominated dinosaurs as a perennial habitat. They instead may have migrated through or laid eggs along the river systems seasonally.
Fund:Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research of Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.2019QZKK0706),the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.2020101040)and the Strategic Priority Research Program(B)of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No. XDB26000000)
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Jiang Bao-Yu,born in 1970,doctor,is a professor of School of Earth Science and Engineering,Nanjing University. He is mainly interested in paleontology,taphonomy and palaeogeography. E-mail: byjiang@nju.edu.cn.
About author: Wang Rui,born in 1995,is a master candidate of paleontology and stratigraphy,and graduated from Jilin University with a bachelor’s degree in 2014. E-mail: mg1829045@smail.nju.edu.cn.
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Wang Rui,Jiang Bao-Yu. Reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous paleoriver systems in China and their effects on distribution of hadrosaurs[J]. JOPC, 2021, 23(3): 581-599.
Wang Rui,Jiang Bao-Yu. Reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous paleoriver systems in China and their effects on distribution of hadrosaurs[J]. JOPC, 2021, 23(3): 581-599.
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