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Early Paleocene vegetation and climate in Jiayin, NE China

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The pollen and spores of the Wuyun Formation (Danian, Early Paleocene) from Jiayin County, Heilongjiang Province, Northeast China, are studied in this paper. The Danian vegetation at Wuyun was composed of mixed temperate and subtropical broad-leaved forest, with an admixture of conifers. The climatic parameters, obtained by the Coexistence Approach based on the palynological and megafossil data, are Mean Annual Temperature of 14.8–16.8°C, Mean Annual Precipitation of 815.8–1,571.8 mm. Combining other climatic parameters in the Tertiary, we obtained the latitudinal temperature gradients: 0.24 in Paleocene, 0.1 in Eocene, 0.45 in Miocene and 0.55 in Pliocene, in the area of East Asia. All these values and modern latitudinal gradient of 0.7 suggest a climatic transition from Paleocene to today: the temperature at higher latitudes first increased then decreased gradually during last 65 Ma, while it changed slightly in lower latitudes.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, People’s Republic of China

    Hui Hao, Yu-Fei Wang & Cheng-Sen Li

  2. Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, People’s Republic of China

    Hui Hao

  3. Department of Paleontology, University of Vienna, Althanstraβe 14, 1090, Vienna, Austria

    David K. Ferguson

  4. Beijing Academy of Science and Technology, Beijing, 100089, China

    Guang-Ping Feng

  5. Pacific Oceanological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok 41, 690041, Russia

    Albert Ablaev

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Hao, H., Ferguson, D.K., Feng, GP. et al. Early Paleocene vegetation and climate in Jiayin, NE China. Climatic Change 99, 547–566 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-009-9728-6

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