Sedimentology of the Upper Cretaceous mammal- and dinosaur-bearing sites along the Râul Mare and Barbat rivers, Haţeg Basin, Romania

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 517-530

  Van Itterbeeck, Jimmy ^a   Sasaran, Emanoil ^b   Codrea, Vlad ^b   Sasaran, Liana ^b   Bultynck, Pierre ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^c ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Continental sedimentology; Ha eg Basin; Upper Cretaceous

Indexed keywords

CALCRETE; CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; MAMMAL; PALEOSOL; WATER TABLE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; HATEG BASIN; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

DINOSAURIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 3442900850     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2004.04.004     Document Type: Article

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