%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