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New Late Cretaceous zhelestid mammal from the Bayanshiree Formation, Mongolia [PDF]

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Numerous exquisitely preserved mammal fossils unearthed from Upper Cretaceous strata in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia have played a key role in understanding Mesozoic mammalian evolution.
TSUKASA OKOSHI, RYUJI TAKASAKI, KENTARO CHIBA, MASAHITO NATORI, MOTOTAKA SANEYOSHI, AKIO TAKAHASHI, SHOTA KODAIRA, SHOJI HAYASHI, SHINOBU ISHIGAKI, BUUVEI MAINBAYAR, KHISHIGJAV TSOGTBAATAR   +10 more
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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, CAIZHI SHEN, JUNCHANG LÜ, STEPHEN L. BRUSATTE, JAKOB VINTHER   +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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New ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaurs from the European lower cretaceous demonstrate extensive ichthyosaur survival across the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary [PDF]

, 2012
Background Ichthyosauria is a diverse clade of marine amniotes that spanned most of the Mesozoic. Until recently, most authors interpreted the fossil record as showing that three major extinction events affected this group during its history: one ...
Ralf Kosma (189585), Tainsh, J., Jeff Liston, Naish Darren, Kosma Ralf, Michael W Maisch, Naish, D., Kosma, R, Darren Naish (115424), Ulrich Joger (189592), Fenton, B., Valentin Fischer (189579), Maisch Michael W., Pérez, Judith Pardo, Krüger Fritz J., Naish, Darren, Fritz J Krüger, Judith Pardo Pérez, Maisch, Michael W, Kosma, Ralf, Fritz J. Krüger, Pérez, J.P., Michael W. Maisch¤a, Liston, Jeff, Ulrich Joger, Valentin Fischer, Krüger, Fritz, Tainsh Jessica, Michael W. Maisch (189582), Robert M. Appleby, Pardo Pérez, Judith, Liston, J, Tainsh, J, Krüger , Fritz J, Appleby, Robert, Michael W. Maisch, Joger, U, Fischer, Valentin, Liston Jeff, Jeff Liston (189589), Robert M Appleby, Fischer Valentin, Robert M. Appleby (189609), Liston, J., Krüger, F.J., Kosma, R., Joger Ulrich, Tainsh, Jessica, Joger, Ulrich, Jessica Tainsh, Maisch, M.W., Maisch, Michael, Appleby, R.M., Krüger, Fritz J, Darren Naish, Fritz J. Krüger (189597), Pérez Judith Pardo, Judith Pardo Pérez (189600), Appleby Robert M., Fischer, V, Ralf Kosma, Jessica Tainsh (189605), Fischer, V., Pardo Pérez, J, Appleby, Robert M, Joger, U.   +65 more
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Serratolamna serrata (Agassiz) (Pisces, Neoselachii) from the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of Jamaica [PDF]

Three teeth of the shark Serratolamna serrata (Agassiz) from the Guinea Corn Formation (Central Inlier) represent the first recorded occurrence of fossil sharks within the Cretaceous of Jamaica.
Underwood, Charlie J., Mitchell, S.F.
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A new dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Wulansuhai Formation of Inner Mongolia, China [PDF]

, 2010
We describe a new dromaeosaurid theropod from the Upper Cretaceous Wulansuhai Formation of Bayan Mandahu, Inner Mongolia. The new taxon, Linheraptor exquisitus gen. et sp.
Tan, Q., Sullivan, C., Xu, X., Sullivan, Corwin, Norell, Mark A., Tan, Lin, Clark, JM, Xiao, D., Choiniere, Jonah N., Pittman, M.D., Tan, L, Pittman, Michael, Tan, Qingwei, Choiniere, J.N., Sullivan, C, Tan, Q, Hone, D.W.E., Hone, David W. E., Tan, L., Hone, DWE, Norell, MA, Li, Z., Li, Zhiquan, Xu, X, Xiao, D, Pittman, M, Clark, J.M., Choiniere, JN, Li, Z, Clark, James M., Xu, Xing, Xiao, Dong, Norrell, M.A.   +32 more
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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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Dinosaur footprints and other Ichnofauna from the Cretaceous Kem Kem Beds of Morocco [PDF]

, 2014
We describe an extensive ichnofossil assemblage from the likely Cenomanian-age 'lower' and 'upper' units of the 'Kem Kem beds' in southeastern Morocco.
Baidder, Lahssen, Zouhri, Samir, David M Martill, Jeffery A Wilson, Ibrahim, Nizar, Lahssen Baidder, Paul C. Sereno (36583), David J. Varricchio (132149), Dutheil, Didier B., David J Varricchio, Varricchio, David J., Martill, David M., Wilson, Jeff A., Paul C Sereno, Sereno, Paul C., Nizar Ibrahim, Didier B Dutheil, Jeff A. Wilson (531956), Didier B. Dutheil (53097), Samir Zouhri (364453), Samir Zouhri, Lahssen Baidder (364452), Nizar Ibrahim (364450), David M. Martill (364451)   +23 more
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New Geochronological Age Constraint and Chemostratigraphy for Aptian Lacustrine Strata, Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah

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, Aisha Al Suwaidi, Elizabeth H. Montgomery, James I. Kirkland, Joe Andrew, Noah Mclean, Andreas Möller, Gregory Ludvigson, Celina A. Suarez   +8 more
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Early Cretaceous biogeographic and oceanographic synthesis of Leg 123 (off Northwestern Australia) [PDF]

, 1992
Biogeographic observations made by Leg 123 shipboard paleontologists for Lower Cretaceous nannofossils, foraminifers, radiolarians, belemnites, and inoceramids are combined in this chapter to evaluate the paleoceanographic history of the northwestern ...
Bown, P., D. Haig, Haig, D., J. Mutterlose, P.O. Baumgartner, Marcoux, J., M.A. Kaminski, P. Bown, Kaminski, M.A., J. Marcoux, Baumgartner, P.O., Mutterlose, J., McMinn, A., A. McMinn   +13 more
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