Confirmation of an Early Cretaceous age for the Qihulin Formation in eastern Heilongjiang Province, China: Constraints from a new discovery of radiolarians

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 691-696

  Li, Gang ^a   Yang, Qun ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Early Cretaceous; Northeastern China; Qihulin Formation; Radiolarians

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; RADIOLARIA;

CHINA; HEILONGJIANG PROVINCE;

ARCHAEODICTYOMITRA; DINOPHYCEAE; NOVIXITUS; RADIOLARIA; RADIOLARIA (PROTOZOANS); XITUS;

EID: 0345581328     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2003.07.004     Document Type: Article

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