Research on the Paleoecology and Paleoenvironment of Early Carboniferous flora from the Taizi River Valley in Eastern Liaoning Province

It is believed for a long time that there is lack of Upper Ordovician to lower Late Carboniferous in the North China Plate. In recent years, the writers discovered and described a plentiful of fossil plants and sporopollens from the bottom of the " Benxi Formation" in muyuzi of Huanren County , Tianshifu of Benxi County, Niuxintai and Gaotaizi of Benxi City, eastern Liaoning. There are 41 species of 21 genera of fossil plants and 90 species of 50 genera of sporopollens, the age of the flora being affirmed as late Early Carboniferous. This is an important discovery and a first systematic research..