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For nonlinear dynamical systems, however, the harmonic eigenfunction paradigm typically breaks down: Koopman operators are often non-normal, may possess a continuous spectrum, and rarely admit complete eigenbases on natural observable spaces. This work develops a resolvent-centered operator-theoretic framework for generalized spectral representations of nonlinear flows through their associated Koopman C0 semigroups. Rather than relying on diagonalization, we construct resolvent-generated generalized spectral operators that yield weak integral representations of the semigroup valid in non-normal and continuous-spectrum regimes. We show that, under mild polynomial resolvent growth bounds along vertical lines, these spectral distributions become finite complex Radon measures on bounded spectral regions, thereby recovering a measure-theoretic interpretation analogous to classical spectral integrals. In the normal case, the framework reduces to the standard spectral theorem. 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