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Early and Middle Miocene dinoflagellate cyst stratigraphy of the Central Paratethys, Central Europe
Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno
Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Universidad de Granada, Fuente Nueva s/n, 18002 Granada, Spain
Laboratoire PaléoEnvironnements et PaléobioSphère (UMR CNRS 5125), Université Cl. Bernard – Lyon 1, 27–43 boulevard du 11 Novembre, 69622 Villeurbanne, France (Current address: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northrop Hall, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131 and Center for Environmental Sciences & Education, Box 5694, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA (e-mail: )
Martin J. Head
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK (Current address: Department of Earth Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3AI, Canada
Mathias Harzhauser
Museum of Natural History, Burgring 7, 1010, Vienna, Austria
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