FOSSIL DINOFLAGELLATES OF CHINA edited by Prof. He Chengquan, Prof. Song Zhichen and Prof. Zhu Youhua from Nanging Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences has been published recently. This volume is divided into eight main chapters. The first seven chapters concern an introduction to the study of fossil and living dinoflagellates. A final chapter is the systematic classification of fossil dinoflagellates of China. It summarizes fossil dinoflagellate taxa published before the year 2006 in China. A total of 213 genera 13 subgenera and about 1000 species (forms) including subspecies and varietates are basically collected.