Stratigraphy, sedimentology and palaeoecology of the dinosaur-bearing Kundur section (Zeya-Bureya Basin, Amur Region, Far Eastern Russia)

Geological Magazine

Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 735-750

  Van Itterbeeck, J ^a   Bolotsky, Y ^b   Bultynck, P ^a,c   Godefroit, Pascal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Amur Natural History Museum   (Russian Federation)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Far Eastern Russia; Maastrichtian; Palaeoenvironment; Vertebrate fossils

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITS; ECOLOGY; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

FAR EASTERN RUSSIA; MAASTRICHTIAN; PALAEOENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT GRAVITY FLOW; SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGICAL DATA; SUBTROPICAL CLIMATES; VERTEBRATE FOSSILS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

DINOSAUR; FACIES; PALEOECOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

AMUR; EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; ZEYA-BUREYA BASIN;

DINOSAURIA; HADROSAURIDAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 32044459700     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756805001226     Document Type: Article

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