Organic walled dinoflagellate cysts from the tarim basin, Western China: Implications for the timing of the early paratethys sea retreat

Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene sediments in the Tarim Basin (western China) are archive of the easternmost remnants of the early Paratethys Sea, an epicontinental sea that covered a large part of Eurasia and probably extended into the Mediterranean Tethys in the west. Its final retreat out of the Tarim Basin has been suggested to be associated...