Middle Pleistocene Ostracoda from a large freshwater lake in the presently dry Qaidam Basin (NW China)

Journal of Micropalaeontology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-64

  Mischke, Steffen ^a   Herzschuh, Ulrike ^b   Sun, Zhencheng ^c   Qiao, Zizhen ^d   Sun, Naida ^c   Zander, Anja M ^e  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^d CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION   (China)

^e PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Middle Pleistocene; NW China; Ostracoda; Palaeolake; Qaidam Basin

Indexed keywords

LAKE ECOSYSTEM; OSTRACOD; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI;

EUCYPRIS; OSTRACODA; PRIONOCYPRIS;

EID: 33646888653     PISSN: 0262821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jm.25.1.57     Document Type: Article

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