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IN the course of extensive economic palæontological researches based on world-wide investigations, it has been found necessary to review and re-assess the bases of mid-Tertiary correlation and dating. We confirm the validity of the five-fold subdivision of the Oligocene and Lower Miocene as represented by the faunas of the type localities of the Lattorfian, Rupe-lian, Chattian, Aquitanian and Burdigalian. These five faunal assemblages can readily be correlated through to Southern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, East Africa, Pakistan and India, and the Far East as a whole.
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EAMES, F., BANNER, F., BLOW, W. et al. Mid-Tertiary Stratigraphical Palæontology. Nature 185, 447–448 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185447b0
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