Biostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental implications of an Early Cretaceous miospore assemblage from the Muling Formation, Jixi Basin, northeast China

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 339-347

  Yang, Xiaoju ^a   Li, Wenben ^a   Batten, David J ^b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

China; Early Cretaceous; Heilongjiang; Miospores; Muling Formation

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GYMNOSPERM; MIOSPORE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PTERIDOPHYTE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HEILONGJIANG; JIXI BASIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CICATRICOSISPORITES AUSTRALIENSIS; CONTIGNISPORITES GLEBULENTUS; DINOPHYCEAE; FILICOPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; PILOSISPORITES; PTERIDOPHYTA;

EID: 34247604890     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2006.07.008     Document Type: Article

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