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The results of radiolarian analysis confirm the Campanian-Maastrichtian age of the Malokuril’skaya Formation in the Shikotan Island. The Campanian-Maastrichtian age of the formation is implied simultaneously by radiolarians and inoceramids. The studied Campanian and Campanian-Maastrichtian radiolarian assemblages include abundant specimens representing genus Prunobrachium, characteristic of which was bipolar distribution in cold-water to temperate basins. The new occurrence site of prunobrachids is established at the latitude of 43°N, the Far East of Russia.
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Original Russian Text © T.N. Palechek, E.P. Terekhov, A.V. Mozherovskii, 2008, published in Stratigrafiya. Geologicheskaya Korrelyatsiya, 2008, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 76–89.
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Palechek, T.N., Terekhov, E.P. & Mozherovskii, A.V. Campanian-Maastrichtian radiolarians from the Malokuril’skaya Formation, the Shikotan Island. Stratigr. Geol. Correl. 16, 650–663 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593808060051
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