WANG Yuanqing~*,TONG Yongsheng and LI Qian Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates.Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100044,China
Abstract:
Recent paleontological,paleomagnetic and carbon isotopic investigations have provided new evidence supporting placement of the Chinese terrestrial Paleocene-Eocene boundary at the base of the Lingcha Formation in the Hengyang Basin,Hunan Province,and within the upper part of the Nomogen Formation in the Erlian Basin,Inner Mongolia.Based on mammalian and ostracod biostratigraphic data,the boundary can also be roughly correlated with the contacts between the Baoyue and Huayong formations in the Sanshui Basin ...