The paper reports SHRIMP U-Pb zircon data of a dark-coloured eclogite and a post-eclogite garnet-bearing gneissic-granitic rock from the Bixiling area, Yuexi County, Anhui Province, in the eastern Dabie Mountains. The eclogite, which is metamorphosed basic tuff, contains very scarce zircons in omphacite or garnet, but more in quartz. They usually exhibit a