Age and correlation of fossiliferous late paleocene-early Eocene Strata of the Erlian Basin, Inner Mongolia, China

American Museum Novitates

Volumn , Issue 3474, 2005, Pages 1-26

  Bowen, Gabriel J ^a   Koch, Paul L ^b   Meng, Jin ^c   Ye, Jie ^d   Ting, Suyin ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^e LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33646361088     PISSN: 00030082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2005)474[0001:AACOFL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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