Study on the Jehol Biota: Recent advances and future prospects
Study on the Jehol Biota: Recent advances and future prospects
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10.1007/s11430-019-9509-3
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2020-04
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Xing（徐星） Xu;Zhonghe Zhou;Yuanquing Wang;Min Wang
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Xing（徐星） Xu;Zhonghe Zhou;Yuanquing Wang;Min Wang
热河生物群是早白垩世最重要的陆生化石组合，其核心分布区为辽西、北方和内蒙古东南部。尽管有150多年的研究历史，但直到20世纪90年代初才开始产生重要的化石，包括有羽毛的恐龙，早期鸟类，早期哺乳动物，访花昆虫和早期被子植物。这些发现对于理解几个主要生物类群的起源和早期进化，以及现代陆地生态系统的起源和最初形成具有重要意义。本文简要介绍了热河生物群的主要发现、研究历史和目前的认识，并对热河生物群的研究前景进行了展望。
The Jehol Biota is an Early Cretaceous terrestrial fossil assemblage of paramount significance, and its core distribution areas are western Liaoning, northern Hebei, and southeastern Inner Mongolia. Despite with a research history of more than 150 years, it started yielding important fossils until early 1990s, which include feathered dinosaurs, early birds, early mammals, flower-visiting insects, and early angiosperms. These discoveries have implications for understanding the origins and early evolution of several major organismal groups, as well as the origin and initial formation of modern terrestrial ecosystem. This review presents a brief introduction of the major discoveries, research history, and current understanding of this biota, and also provides future prospects for studying the Jehol Biota.