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 ...
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A Late Cretaceous true polar wander oscillation. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2021 AbstractTrue polar wander (TPW), or planetary reorientation, is well documented for other planets and moons and for Earth at present day with satellites, but testing its prevalence in Earth’s past is complicated by simultaneous motions due to plate tectonics. Debate has surrounded the existence of Late Cretaceous TPW ca.
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The ophiolite-related Mersin Melange, southern Turkey: its role in the tectonic–sedimentary setting of Tethys in the Eastern Mediterranean region [PDF]
, 2004 WOS: 000222988100001The Mersin Melange underlies the intact Mersin Ophiolite and its metamorphic sole to the south of the Mesozoic Tauride Carbonate Platform in southern Turkey The Melange varies from chaotic melange to broken formation, in which some ...
Parlak, Osman, Robertson, Alastair
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Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration, 2021 Balıkkaya formation consists of olistostromal units with a burgundy coloured mudstone, siltstone and pelagic limestone matrix containing various sizes of UpperJurassic-Lower Cretaceous limestone (Bilecik Limestone) blocks and ...
İzver Özkar Öngen, Serdar Akgündüz
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Dawn and dusk of Late Cretaceous basin inversion in central Europe [PDF]
Solid Earth, 2021 Central and western Europe were affected by a compressional tectonic event in the Late Cretaceous, caused by the convergence of Iberia and Europe. Basement uplifts, inverted graben structures, and newly formed marginal troughs are the main expressions of
T. Voigt, J. Kley, S. Voigt
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Tyrant dinosaur evolution tracks the rise and fall of Late Cretaceous oceans. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The Late Cretaceous (∼95-66 million years ago) western North American landmass of Laramidia displayed heightened non-marine vertebrate diversity and intracontinental regionalism relative to other latest Cretaceous Laurasian ecosystems.
Mark A Loewen +4 more
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Natural History Sciences, 2023 A mass mortality assemblage of mysid crustaceans is herein reported from the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) sublithographic limestone of Hakel (Lebanon).
Giovanni Pasini, Alessandro Garassino
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Temporal and phylogenetic evolution of the sauropod dinosaur body plan [PDF]
, 2016 The colossal size and body plan of sauropod dinosaurs are unparalleled in terrestrial vertebrates. However, to date, there have been only limited attempts to examine temporal and phylogenetic patterns in the sauropod bauplan.
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The origin and early evolution of metatherian mammals: the Cretaceous record
ZooKeys, 2014 Metatherians, which comprise marsupials and their closest fossil relatives, were one of the most dominant clades of mammals during the Cretaceous and are the most diverse clade of living mammals after Placentalia.
Thomas E. Williamson +2 more
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Divergence rates of subviral pathogens of angiosperms abruptly decreased at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary [PDF]
Rethinking Ecology, 2019 Biogeographic distribution of infected plants and the continental drift theory allow a tentative time calibration of the phylogenetic tree of Pospiviroidae.
Piotr Bajdek
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