Iridescent plumage in a juvenile dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2023 Colour reconstructions have provided new insights into the lives of dinosaurs and other extinct animals, by predicting colouration patterns from fossilised pigment-bearing organelles called melanosomes.
ANGUS D. CROUDACE +4 more
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Nikolay Ivanovitch Karakash - an outstanding scientist-naturalist
Известия высших учебных заведений: Геология и разведка, 2015 The 2016 year is a year of the 100th anniversary of the death of the outstanding Russian geologist and paleontologist, one of the first investigators of Cretaceous deposits of Crimea and Caucasus, Nikolay Ivanovitch Karakash.
V. N. Komarov
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Petrography and diagenetic history of the Shurijeh Formation (Late Kimmeridgian–Hautrivian) at Estarkhi section, Kopet-Dagh Basin, NE Iran [PDF]
Journal of Stratigraphy and Sedimentology Researches, 2021 The Shurijeh Formation is a Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous (Late Kimmeridgian–Hauterivian) siliciclastic rock unit of the Kopet-Dagh Basin, up to 392 m thick.
Mehdi Reza Poursoltani
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Rifts, orogens, cratons, and global tectonics: Introduction
Геодинамика и тектонофизика, 2017 A key role in developing the Earth theory is played by comparative studies of orogens, rifts, and platforms in the equatorial, middle and high latitudes of Asia and the adjacent Arctic regions.
S. V. Rasskazov
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Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2023 The Early Cretaceous is an important time of transition in Earth history, marked by a succession of oceanic anoxic events and carbon cycle perturbations that drove changes on land and in the ocean.
Marina B. Suarez +8 more
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An anhanguerian pterodactyloid mandible from the lower Valanginian of Northern Germany, and the German record of Cretaceous pterosaurs [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2021 The record of Cretaceous pterosaur remains from Germany is sparse. The material recovered to date includes the fragmentary holotypes of Targaryendraco wiedenrothi and Ctenochasma roemeri, as well as a few isolated pterodactyloid teeth and some ...
Pascal Abel +3 more
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Osteology of the unenlagiid theropod Neuquenraptor argentinus from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia [PDF]
, 2017 Neuquenraptor argentinus was described as the first undoubted deinonychosaurian theropod from Gondwana. The only known specimen is represented by a fragmentary skeleton, including a nearly complete foot, coming from Late Cretaceous beds of Neuquén ...
Agnolin, Federico +3 more
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New material of the trechnotherian mammal Lactodens from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota: Comparison with Origolestes and implications for mammal evolution [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2022 A new specimen of Lactodens sheni, the only known spalacolestine from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota, is reported from the Jiufotang Formation, Liaoning, China.
FANGYUAN MAO, CUNYU LIU, JIN MENG
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An Upper Cretaceous ichthyodectiform fish from Kyushu, Japan [PDF]
Research & Knowledge, 2017 Ichthyodectiform fishes are an exclusively extinct basal teleost clade, with a temporal range from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) to Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian).
Yoshitaka Yabumoto +2 more
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Reassessment of amber-bearing deposits of Provence, southeastern France
BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin, 2021 The presence of “geological” amber (or “succin” in old French monographs) has been reported for several centuries in the Mesozoic deposits of Provence, southeastern France.
Saint Martin Jean-Paul +9 more
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