A revised turtle assemblage from the Upper Cretaceous Menefee Formation (New Mexico, North America) with evolutionary and paleobiostratigraphic implications [PDF]
PeerJThe middle Campanian Menefee Formation (Fm.) of the San Juan Basin of New Mexico is a relatively understudied terrestrial deposit in southern Laramidia preceding the fossil-rich upper Campanian Fruitland and Kirtland formations that have been studied for
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Taxonomic review, palaeoecological, and palaeobiogeographical significances of Campanian Tethyan oysters from the North Eastern Desert, Egypt [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe Late Cretaceous was a time of high eustatic sea level that enabled extensive epicontinental seaways and carbonate platforms across the Tethyan Realm, providing favorable habitats for oyster communities to flourish. This study focuses on the Campanian
El Sayed M. Moneer +3 more
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New monstersaur specimens from the Kaiparowits Formation of Utah reveal unexpected richness of large-bodied lizards in Late Cretaceous North America [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceMonstersauria (Squamata, Anguimorpha) fossils are present in most Upper Cretaceous sedimentary basins in western North America, but despite almost a century of collection, their record remains extremely fragmentary.
C. Henrik Woolley +4 more
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 1-26., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Richard E. Ernst +8 more
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The oldest elasmosaurs (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from Antarctica, Santa Marta Formation (upper Coniacian? Santonian–upper Campanian) and Snow Hill Island Formation (upper Campanian–lower Maastrichtian), James Ross Island [PDF]
Polar Research, 2012 Elasmosaurs are recorded for the first time in the Lachman Crags Member (Beta Member) of the Santa Marta Formation (lower Campanian) and in the Herbert Sound Member of the Snow Hill Island Formation (upper Campanian).
José P. O'Gorman
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Cranial anatomy and stratigraphy of a new specimen of the tyrannosaurine dinosaur Daspletosaurus from the Judith River Formation of Central Montana, USA [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica PolonicaThe tyrannosaurine Daspletosaurus contains three recognized species from the Campanian of Montana and Alberta: Daspletosaurus torosus, Daspletosaurus wilsoni, and Daspletosaurus horneri. The recently named D. wilsoni has been proposed to represent a
ETHAN WARNER-COWGILL +3 more
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Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2020 The Bottaccione section (Umbria-Marche Basin, central Italy) was analyzed for calcareous nannofossil and planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy across the Santonian-Campanian boundary interval to achieve a high-resolution and updated zonation directly ...
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The age of the brachiopod limestones from Guča, western Serbia [PDF]
Geološki Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva, 2010 The asymmetric rhynchonellide brachiopod Cyclothyris? globata (ARNAUD, 1877) has a large distribution in the Coniacian, Santonian and Campanian outcrops of the western Tethys.
Radoičić Rajka +3 more
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The final, Late Campanian – Early Maastrichtian stage of Micraster and Isomicraster (Echinoidea, Spatangoida) development [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия Науки о ЗемлеThe final, late Campanian – early Maastrichtian stage of development of echinoids Micraster and Isomicraster, was studied based on extensive material from the Upper Cretaceous sediments of the North Caucasus, Mangyshlak, Kopetdag, Volga and ...
Kalyakin, Evgeniy Aleksandrovich
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Energy Geoscience, 2023 Fluid inclusion signal strength and visual inclusion abundance are generally lower along migration pathways than in charged reservoirs from the same area.
G.A. Osukuku +4 more
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