"Tertiary dinosaurs" in the Nanxiong basin, Southern China, are reworked from the Cretaceous

Journal of Geology

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 111-118

  Buck, Brenda J ^a   Hanson, Andrew D ^a   Hengst, Richard A ^b   Hu, Shu Sheng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY CALUMET   (United States)

^c Beijing Natural History Museum   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DINOSAUR; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; REWORKING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGDONG; NANXIONG BASIN;

EID: 1642423745     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/379695     Document Type: Article

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