High-precision geochronological constraints on the duration of 'Dinosaur Pompeii' and the Yixian Formation

Yuting Zhong; Magdalena H Huyskens; Qing-Zhu Yin; Yaqiong Wang; Qiang Ma; Yi-Gang Xu

doi:10.1093/nsr/nwab063

High-precision geochronological constraints on the duration of 'Dinosaur Pompeii' and the Yixian Formation

Natl Sci Rev. 2021 Apr 12;8(6):nwab063. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwab063. eCollection 2021 Jun.

Authors

Yuting Zhong¹, Magdalena H Huyskens², Qing-Zhu Yin², Yaqiong Wang³, Qiang Ma¹, Yi-Gang Xu¹

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
² Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California at Davis, USA.
³ State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Abstract

High-precision U-Pb zircon ages of 125.755 ± 0.061 Ma and 124.122 ± 0.048 Ma, respectively, represent the onset and termination of Yixian Formation in the Jin-Yang basin, bracketing its duration to 1.633 ± 0.078 Myr.