• 责任者：Chen Peiji (State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy ; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology ; CAS ; Nanjing 210008 ; China) ; Wan Xiaoqiao
• 刊名：Journal of Stratigraphy
• 出版年：2012
• 卷期：36(4)
• 关键词：古新世 ; Paleocene ; 年代地层学 ; chronostratigraphy ; 黑龙江省 ; Heilongjiang Province
• 页码：p.764-772
• 图表：4 illus., 4 tables, 33 refs.
• 分类号：1200
• issnNo：ISSN0253-4959
• isbnNo：CN32-1187/P

The Furaoan Stage was used as the uppermost chronostratigraphic unit of non-marine Cretaceous in China. It is rich in sporo-pollen fossils at its type section in the Wuyan area near the Heilongiiang (A-tour) River. In recent years, through systematic investigation of the Furaoan strata, a rich assemblage of sporo-pollen fossils has been described. This sporo-pollen assemblage allows a correlation with upper member of the Mingshui Formation in the Songliao Basin and upper member of the Taizhou Formation in the South Yellow Sea-North Jiangsu Basin. It suggests an Early Paleocene age, rather than a latest Cretaceous Maastrichtian age.