“…Many of these studies describe diverse and abundant dinocyst assemblages, characteristic of the uppermost Maastrichtian and lowermost Danian (Wilson,1974;J.M. Hansen, 1979;De Coninck and Smit,1982;Firth,1987Firth, , 1993Hultberg and Malmgren, 1987;Habib et al,1992;Moshkovitz and Habib, 1993;Schiøler and Wilson, 1993;Olsson et al, 1997;Schiøler et al,1997;Nøhr-Hansen and Dam,1997;Mohamed and Wagreich, 2013;Vellekoop et al, 2016). Others, often the thinner successions, are usually not very productive and yield poor or barren dinocyst assemblages (Gedl, 2004;Beiranvand et al, 2014;Machalski et al, 2016).…”