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On impact and volcanism across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary
Science, 2020 An impact with a dash of volcanism Around the time of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction that wiped out dinosaurs, there was both a bolide impact and a large amount of volcanism. Hull et al. ran several temperature simulations based on different volcanic
Pincelli M Hull +2 more
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Rapid recovery of life at ground zero of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction
Nature, 2018 The Cretaceous/Palaeogene mass extinction eradicated 76% of species on Earth1,2. It was caused by the impact of an asteroid3,4 on the Yucatán carbonate platform in the southern Gulf of Mexico 66 million years ago5, forming the Chicxulub impact crater6,7.
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The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary
Science, 2010 Laia Alegret +2 more
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The eruptive tempo of Deccan volcanism in relation to the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary
Science, 2019 Two timelines for extinction The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction that wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs 66 million years ago was correlated with two extreme events: The Chicxulub impact occurred at roughly the same time that massive amounts of lava were ...
C. Sprain +5 more
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Exceptional continental record of biotic recovery after the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction
Science, 2019 Terrestrial record of recovery The extinction that occurred at the end of the Cretaceous period is best known as the end of the nonavian dinosaurs.
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American Journal of Science, 2018 Mercury (Hg) is increasingly being used as a sedimentary tracer of Large Igneous Province (LIP) volcanism, and supports hypotheses of a coincidence between the formation of several LIPs and episodes of mass extinction and major environmental perturbation.
L. Percival +10 more
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A Late Cretaceous amber biota from central Myanmar
Nature Communications, 2018 Insect faunas are extremely rare near the latest Cretaceous with a 24-million-year gap spanning from the early Campanian to the early Eocene. Here, we report a unique amber biota from the Upper Cretaceous (uppermost Campanian ~72.1 Ma) of Tilin, central ...
D. Zheng +15 more
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PLoS Biology, 2018 Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight and the largest animals to ever take wing. The pterosaurs persisted for over 150 million years before disappearing at the end of the Cretaceous, but the patterns of and processes driving ...
N. Longrich, D. Martill, B. Andres
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Termite colonies from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar demonstrate their early eusocial lifestyle in damp wood
National Science Review, 2019 Insect eusociality is characterized by cooperative brood care, reproductive division of labour and multiple generations of adults within a colony. The morphological specializations of the different termite castes from Burmese amber were recently reported,
Zhipeng Zhao +4 more
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Pollination of Cretaceous flowers
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019 Significance Since Darwin, insect pollination was thought to be a key contributor to the Cretaceous radiation of angiosperms. Both insects and angiosperms were common during the mid-Cretaceous, but direct evidence for a Cretaceous insect-angiosperm ...
Tong Bao +3 more
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