Xingning Basin, located in
Xingning,
China, is the largest
basin in east
Guangdong
Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020 ...
province. It spans 302 km
2.
Ostracode fossils from at least a dozen species in ten genera have been found there, from both the
Early and
Late Cretaceous
The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale. Rock strata from this epoch form the Upper Cretaceous Series. The Cretaceous is named after ''creta'', ...
.
References
External links
Federation of American Scientists- photos and map.
Cretaceous China
Landforms of Guangdong
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