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Response of Cretaceous Palynological Records to Regional Tectonic Events and Global Climate Change in Liupanshan Basin, Northwest China

Applied Sciences
The transition of the East Asian tectonic system during the Jurassic-Cretaceous period has had a profound influence on the paleoclimatic evolution in Northwest China.
Bohua Liu, Fang Wu, Lijie Wei, Zhenhong Li, Xiaopeng Dong   +4 more
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Onset of an Aptian carbonate platform overlying a Middle-Late Jurassic radiolaritic-ophiolithic mélange in the Mirdita Zone of Albania

Geologia Croatica, 2012
Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous carbonate sediments of different age and facies, form the post-emplacement settings on top of the Mirdita Ophiolite Zone in northern Albania.
Felix Schlagintweit, Hans-Jürgen Gawlick, Richard Lein, Sigrid Missoni, Lirim Hoxha   +4 more
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Low ecological disparity in Early Cretaceous birds [PDF]

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2014
Ecological divergence is thought to be coupled with evolutionary radiations, yet the strength of this coupling is unclear. When birds diversified ecologically has received much less attention than their hotly debated crown divergence time. Here, we quantify how accurately skeletal morphology can predict ecology in living and extinct birds, and show ...
Jonathan S, Mitchell, Peter J, Makovicky
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Cranial anatomy of a Late Cretaceous aspidorhynchid fish (Neopterygii: Aspidorhynchiformes) from Alberta, Canada

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Belonostomus longirostrisis was named for an isolated jaw fragment from freshwater Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) sediments of the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada. Following the description of the Albertan species, numerous isolated cranial and postcranial elements have been collected from the Dinosaur Park Formation and assigned to B.
Mondo Miyazato, Luke E. Nelson, Joshua A. Doyon, Donald B. Brinkman, Alison M. Murray   +4 more
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Early cretaceous molybdenum-bearing felsic magmatic rocks in the tongmushan district, northern great Xing’an range: implications for mesozoic porphyry metallogenesis

Frontiers in Earth Science
The Nenjiang-Heihe metallogenic belt of the northern Great Xing’an Range is renowned for Mesozoic epithermal Au deposits, however, apart from the Duobaoshan and Tongshan super-large porphyry deposits in the Paleozoic, no superlarge porphyry copper ...
Wang Zhuo, Li Xu-Dong, Wang Jin, Li Cheng-Lu, Wang Zhao-Lin, Wang Zhao-Lin, Yin Yuqing, Yuan Mao-Wen, Lv Ming-Qi, Masroor Alam   +9 more
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Peculiar macrophagous adaptations in a new Cretaceous pliosaurid [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2015
During the Middle and Late Jurassic, pliosaurid plesiosaurs evolved gigantic body size and a series of craniodental adaptations that have been linked to the occupation of an apex predator niche. Cretaceous pliosaurids (i.e.
Valentin Fischer, Maxim S. Arkhangelsky, Ilya M. Stenshin, Gleb N. Uspensky, Nikolay G. Zverkov, Roger B. J. Benson   +5 more
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An osteohistological analysis of Triceratops (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) cranial ornamentation

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Ceratopsids are among the most distinctive and well known extinct Cretaceous vertebrates, yet many details regarding the growth and composition of their cranial features are still not fully anatomically described or understood. In particular, striking cranial adornments such as the postorbital horns and parietal‐squamosal frill of Triceratops ...
Kyle D. Obuszewski, N. Adam Smith, Guinevere Rose Brown   +2 more
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An unusual titanosaur axis from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil and its significance for sauropod anatomy and systematics

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The Upper Cretaceous São José do Rio Preto Formation (Bauru Group, southeastern Brazil) has yielded a fragmentary but taxonomically diverse record of titanosaur sauropods, although elements from cervical series remain scarce. Here, we describe a nearly complete sauropod axis from the Vila Ventura Paleontological Area, representing an uncommon ...
Bruno A. Navarro, Jeffrey A. Wilson Mantilla, Jhonata H. A. Martins, Fabiano V. Iori, Leonardo S. Paschoa, Alberto B. Carvalho, Joseli M. Piranha, Hussam Zaher   +7 more
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A new species of Lonchidiidae (Hybodontiformes) from the Late Jurassic of Brazil (Aliança Formation, Jatobá Basin)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The Aliança Formation (Jatobá Basin) represents lacustrine deposits formed in oxygenated waters that hosted a diverse fauna, including Hybodontiform sharks. Within this group, the Family Lonchidiidae comprises 11 valid genera, with Parvodus previously reported in Brazilian deposits from the Brejo Santo Formation (Araripe Basin, Late Jurassic ...
Larissa de Souza Ribeiro, Marco Aurélio Gallo de França   +1 more
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The Cretaceous corals of Mexico: occurrences and history of research

Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, 2018
An extensive, detailed compilation of the known occurrences and described species of Cretaceous scleractinian corals in the country of Mexico, based almost entirely on published scientific literature, is presented for the first time.
Harry F. Filkorn
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