%0 Journal Article %T OriginalArticles--------------------------------------------------------------------------------PaleoecologyofOligocarpiagothaniiHallefromtheMiddlePermianofSoutheasternShanxi,NorthChina %A HE %A Xuezhi %A WAN %A Mingli %A YAN %A Mengxiao %A CHENG %A Chen %A WANG %A Shijun %A and %A WANG %A Jun %J µØÖÊѧ±¨ %P 1063-1075 %D 2015 %X FossilfernsareabundantanddiverseinthePermianCathaysianFloraofShanxi,NorthChina.AlthoughplantsassemblagesoftheCarboniferousandPermianhavebeenextensivelyinvestigated,theirpalaeoecologyandespeciallythepaleoecologyoffernshasnotbeenstudiedindetail.RecentreinvestigationofOligocarpiagothaniihasrevealeditsgrowthhabitandcloningreproductionstrategy,butmostpreviousstudieslackintegratedsedimentologicalandtaphonomicdata.Inthisstudy,newmaterialsofO.gothaniihavebeencollectedfromafloodplainsettinginthemiddlePermianLowerShihhotseFormationofsoutheasternShanxi.Theseplantfossilswerefoundinalenticularclaystoneassociatedwithrootingstructures.Theyarecharacterizedbyaphlebiaatthebaseofthepenultimaterachis.Sedimentological,taphonomicandmorphologicalanalyseswereconductedtounderstandthegrowthhabitandecologyofthefern.TheresultindicatesthattheOligocarpiagothaniihadaprostrate,groundcovergrowthhabit,andwasdominantinpioneerflorasthatcolonizeddisturbedfloodplains. %K palaeoecology %K planttaphonomy %K middlePermian %K OligocarpiagothaniiHalle %U http://www.geojournals.cn/dzxb/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=201504001&flag=1