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Germany is located at the centre of the map. Germany is located between the geologically very old ( Precambrian) East European Craton ( Baltica) to the north and north-east (that further north is exposed as the Baltic Shield ), and the geologically young (Cenozoic) Alpine - Carpathian Orogen to the south. The corresponding crustal provinces of ...Hunt, C.O. 1987. Dinoflagellate cyst and acritarch assemblages in shallow-marine and marginal-marine carbonates: the Portland Sand, Portland Stone, and Purbeck Formations (Upper Jurassic/Lower Cretaceous) of southern England and northern France. In: Hart, M.B. (ed) Micropalaeontology of Carbonate Environments.The Pierre Shale is a geologic formation or series in the Upper Cretaceous which occurs east of the Rocky Mountains in the Great Plains, from Pembina Valley in Canada [2] to New Mexico . The Pierre Shale was described by Meek and Hayden in 1862 in the Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences (Philadelphia). They described it as a dark-gray shale ...Sep 21, 2023 · Introduction. The Upper Cretaceous Nanxiong Formation of Jiangxi Province, southern China has yielded a diverse array of vertebrates in recent years, including theropods (Xu and Han Citation 2010; Wang et al. Citation 2013; Wei et al. Citation 2013; Lü et al. Citation 2013a, Citation 2014, Citation 2015, Citation 2016, Citation 2017; Mo and Xu Citation 2015), ornithopods (Xing et al. Citation ...

Abstract. The geological and paleoenvironmental setting and the vertebrate taxonomy of the fossiliferous, Cenomanian-age deltaic sediments in eastern Morocco, generally referred to as the “Kem ...Upper Cretaceous paleoenvironmental changes and petrophysical responses in lacustrine record (Songliao Basin, NE China) and marine sedimentary deposit (Goban …

Enantiornithes were the dominant avialan clade in the Mesozoic. However, their record for the Upper Cretaceous is scarce. In this study, we present and describe Yatenavis ieujensis gen. et sp. nov., one of the youngest occurrence of an enantiornithine bird. The specimen, the distal half of a right humerus, was found in Chorrillo Formation ...The Cretaceous Period was a time of great inundation by shallow seas that created swamp conditions favourable for the accumulation of fossil fuels at the margin of land areas. ... Another rock type, called the Urgonian limestone, is similarly widespread in the Upper Barremian-Lower Aptian. This massive limestone facies, whose name is commonly ...

The upper Cretaceous biostratigraphic marker species in tropical areas are considered important events for the present study, and some have been incorporated and are called unique events (UE). In the graphic representation, they are identified by a double asterisk, and since they are present in less than four out of seven wells, RASC does not ...A new Podocnemidinura specimen from the Upper Cretaceous Bauru Group (Paraná Basin) of southeastern Brazil was described. The Bauru Group provided an important portrait of the Brazilian Mesozoic terrestrial biota, which boasts a vertebrate fauna formed from fishes, frogs, lacertilians, crocodyliforms, dinosaurs and mammals; records of palynomorphs; and invertebrate fauna consisted of ...Chucarosaurus diripienda gen. et sp. nov. is a new and large titanosaurian sauropod from the Neuquén Basin, Rio Negro Province, Patagonia. The specimen was discovered in the Upper Cretaceous strata of the Huincul Formation (middle Cenomanian-lower Turonian). It includes appendicular and relatively slender elements, with a femoral total length of about 1.9 m long.The deposits corresponding to the Upper Cretaceous Neuquén and San Jorge Gulf basins from northern and central Patagonia have provided two of the most complete sequences of terrestrial vertebrate faunas of all Gondwanan landmasses. Among the carnivorous components, the carcharodontosaurid theropods appeared as common elements during the Early ...The Lameta Formation (Upper Cretaceous) is exposed in parts of central and western India as detached outcrops and covers an area of nearly 5000 km2. It generally rests on Precambrian and "Gondwana" rocks and is invariably capped by Deccan Trap volcanic flows. In the Nand and Dongargaon areas of the Chandrapur and Nagpur districts of Maharashtra ...

The Dinosaur Park Formation is the uppermost member of the Belly River Group (also known as the Judith River Group), a major geologic unit in southern Alberta.It was deposited during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous, between about 76.5 and 74.4 million years ago. It was deposited in alluvial and coastal plain environments, and it is bounded …

Our study builds on an earlier examination of the landscape abundance of megaherbivorous dinosaurs of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of the western United States (Farlow et al., 2010), but now considers the abundance of Morrison large theropods, and extends consideration to the tyrannosaurids of the Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Park ...

Type of Dinosaur: Theropod Existed: Late Cretaceous, 71-68 Mya Where found: Alberta, Canada Estimated length: 8-10 m (26-33 ft.) Albertosaurus was a member of the dinosaur family Tyrannosauridae (the same family to which T. rex and Gorgosaurus belong). The first Albertosaurus specimen to be found was a partial skull. It was discovered in 1884 on an expedition led by Canadian geologist Joseph ...The Upper Cretaceous-Lower Paleogene succession at Gabal Qreiya area that covers six rock units, Quseir, Duwi, Dakhla, Tarawan, Esna, and Thebes formations, is reviewed through a high-resolution sequence stratigraphic analysis. Six third-order depositional sequences and their associated surfaces and systems tracts are recognized based on stratigraphic, sedimentological, and high-resolution ...The Cretaceous Maha Sarakham Formation in this area consists of evaporite units (Lower Salt and Middle/Upper Salt) interbedded with clastic sediment. Potash minerals in the upper part of the Lower Salt Unit are associated with an underlying thick bed of rock salt. The δ 11 B values of halite (21.46 ‰–32.62‰) indicated a marine origin ...Cretaceous was a period of intense tectonics placing India in a drifted position against the context of global paleogeography. India was dismembered from Gondwanaland and drifted northward as an island continent leading to many dramatic changes in basinal configurations as a result of the closure of the Gondwana rift basins as well as the …The Saratoga Chalk of Arkansas yields a rich ammonite fauna of 17 species, referred to the Nostoceras (N.) hyatti zone. Recognition that the northwest European N. (N.) pozaryskii Blaszkiewicz, 1980, is a synonym of N. (N.) hyatti Stephenson, 1941, and N. (N.) helicinum (Shumard, 1861) dates the zone as latest Campanian on the basis of co-occurrence with Belemnitella langei Jeletzky, 1948, in ...A horny beak at the end of the lower jaw met a toothless pad on the upper jaw. In Hypsilophodon there were incisor-like teeth on the upper jaw which closed against a toothless horny beak on the lower, while in Parkosaurus which survived until the end of the Cretaceous period, a horny beak replaced all the front teeth. This dinosaur probably ...ABSTRACT. Abelisaurids are among the most abundant and diverse Patagonian Late Cretaceous theropods. Here, we present a new furileusaurian abelisaurid, Llukalkan aliocranianus gen. et sp. nov., represented by cranial remains from the Bajo de la Carpa Formation (Santonian) at La Invernada fossil area, northwestern Patagonia. Features characterizing this taxon include a possible caudal tympanic ...

Germany is located at the centre of the map. Germany is located between the geologically very old ( Precambrian) East European Craton ( Baltica) to the north and north-east (that further north is exposed as the Baltic Shield ), and the geologically young (Cenozoic) Alpine - Carpathian Orogen to the south. The corresponding crustal provinces of ...In the Japanese Upper Cretaceous, elasmosaurid remains are fairly common but two short-necked lineages are represented by much smaller number of specimens (e.g. Sato et al., 2012 Carrano et al ...Aug 15, 2022 · Mo et al. (2020) also found PAHs compounds (e.g., retene, pyrene, perylene, benzo[h]fluoranthenes, benzo-pyrene) in the Upper Cretaceous Nenjiang Formation in Well JTD1 from the Western Slope Area in the Songliao Basin, which they interpreted to be from terrestrial inputs. Download : Download high-res image (505KB) Download : Download full-size ... Parksosaurus (meaning "William Parks's lizard") is a genus of neornithischian dinosaur from the early Maastrichtian-age Upper Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, Canada.It is based on most of a partially articulated skeleton and partial skull, showing it to have been a small, bipedal, herbivorous dinosaur. It is one of the few …Zonal and marker species of radiolarians from Upper Cretaceous sequences of eastern Europe: 1Spongosaturninus hueyi Pessagno; 2Neosciadiacapsa agarkovi Vishnevskaya; 3Rhombastrum russiense Vishnevskaya, Rostov region, right coast of the Kalitva River, Efremovo-Stepanovka, upper Campanian; 4 N. diabloensis Pessagno ( 1, 2, and 4 from Greater ...Further offshore are the Upper Cretaceous depocentres of the Morum, Nelson and Hunter sub-basins, and the Discovery Bay High (Totterdell et al, 2014). The Torquay Sub-basin, a largely offshore depocentre, is situated in the northeastern part of the basin and contains a Lower Cretaceous succession similar to that elsewhere in the basin.In Khalda structure, the Cretaceous section was interpreted on the seismic sections covering the Khalda Oil Field. It is indicated that the Upper Cretaceous Abu Roash and the Lower Cretaceous Alam-El Bueib formations have been affected by normal faulting. Though the implication of folding is minimized, it is traceable in the field.

The dominant Cretaceous calcispheres. The extinct pithonellid forms dominate late Cretaceous calcisphere assemblages and can occur in rock-forming abundance 6,7,8.Before this study, their ...

Ages of the Upper Cretaceous strata are well established from radiometric dating and from marine layers of the fossiliferous Mancos Group, which is as much as a mile thick in eastern Utah. Farther north, the North Horn …A new genus and species of an elasmosaurid plesiosaur, Futabasaurus suzukii, is described based on a partial skeleton from the Inoceramus amakusensis Zone (Lower Santonian, Upper Cretaceous) of ...One of the most common causes of thigh pain is muscle strain, according to WebMD. Less common causes include vascular disease, blood clots and arthritis. Some causes of upper thigh pain include:The presence of a small to middle-medium sized abelisaurid in the Upper Cretaceous shows that. Author statement. We the authors of "A New Medium-sized Abelisaurid (Theropoda, Dinosauria) from the late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Allen Formation of Northern Patagonia, Argentina." declare that have not submitted this article in another journal ...the Upper Cretaceous on the North Slope. 5. Conclusions. 1 Late Cretaceous strata along the lower Colville River,. Alaska, record three distinct depositional ...Lower Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) ammonites from the Merchantville Formation of New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware W. J. Kennedy; W. J. Kennedy Oxford University Museum, Geological Collections, Oxford, England, United Kingdom. Search for other works by this author on: GSW.The Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan has yielded many isolated bones and teeth representing a variety of non-avian theropod dinosaurs. A pedal phalanx II-2 indicates the presence of a dromaeosaurid theropod that attained a larger body size than any previously known member of that clade.The Cretaceous is defined as the period between 145.5 and 65.5 million years ago,* the last period of the Mesozoic Era, following the Jurassic and ending with the extinction of the dinosaurs (except birds). By the beginning of the Cretaceous, the supercontinent Pangea was already rifting apart, and by the mid-Cretaceous, it had split into ...The Santo Anastácio Formation (Lower Cretaceous - Albian) is constituted by reddish-yellow massive/rooted paleosols generated over aeolian sandstones (draa facies association according Batezelli, 2015).The Araçatuba Formation (Upper Cretaceous - Campanian) is constituted by greenish to red very fine-grained silty sandstones and sandy siltites, with normal gradation, and planar-parallel ...A marine bonebed from the Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) Bearpaw - Dinosaur Park Formation transition, containing both micro- and macrovertebrate fossils and trace fossils, was discovered in west-central Saskatchewan, Canada. The bonebed formed during transgression of the Western Interior Seaway, with the stratigraphy of the area displaying extensive interfingering of these terrestrial and ...

Cenomanian Stage, first of six main divisions (in ascending order) in the Upper Cretaceous Series, representing rocks deposited worldwide during the Cenomanian Age, which occurred 100.5 million to 93.9 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period. Rocks of the Cenomanian Stage overlie those of

The Upper Cretaceous Chalk play is a well-known, successful and mature play in the North Sea Basin (e.g. Denmark, Norway, UK). However, it is considered ...

Late Cretaceous palaeogeography of western North America was dominated by three tectonic belts that extended virtually the length of the Cordillera: (1) an Andean-type volcanic–plutonic magmatic arc on the west (i.e., Cordilleran Magmatic Arc), (2) a thin-skinned fold-and-thrust belt on the east (initiated in mid-Cretaceous time), and (3) a hinterland (zone of metamorphism, magmatism, and ...Tlatolophus galorum, gen. et sp. nov., a parasaurolophini dinosaur from the upper Campanian of the Cerro del Pueblo Formation, ... Before the present research, this subfamily was represented by 22 genera and 28 species recovered from Upper Cretaceous deposits of North America, Asia, Africa, and Europe (Table 1) ...Abstract. The cranial anatomy of Dinilysia patagonica, a terrestrial snake from the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina, is redescribed and illustrated, ...To date, the most complete and largely articulated specimen is the holotype of Sachicasaurus vitae Páramo-Fonseca et al., (2018) from the upper Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of Colombia. It is 990 cm long measured from the tip of the snout to the posterior end of the last preserved caudal vertebra (Páramo-Fonseca et al., 2018).Japanese Upper Cretaceous marine reptile fossils occur in five major stratigraphical units: the Yezo, Kuji, Futaba, Izumi, and Goshoura groups (Figs. 1 and 2; Table 1).Many of these specimens were excavated by private collectors and donated to local museums; therefore, their locality data is based solely on museum records and/or published accounts.The Upper Cretaceous Iharkút vertebrate locality (Bakony Mountains, Hungary) provided a diverse lizard fauna. In order to infer their food preference, jaw and tooth morphology, as well as dental ...The earliest fruit fossil convincingly assigned to Ceratophyllum was reported from the Upper Cretaceous of Mexico, namely C. lesii Estrada-Ruiz, Calvillo-Canadell et Cevallos-Ferrizis [6 ...The Upper Cretaceous sediments in the Moghan area, NW Iran, contain diverse planktonic and benthic foraminifera, with a total of 33 genera and 53 species (17 genera and 38 species of planktonic ...The organic-rich shale of the Upper Cretaceous Qingshankou Formation is an important hydrocarbon source rock in Northeast China. In this study, taking the lacustrine shale in the Qingshankou Formation as an example, geochemical analysis, including total organic carbon (TOC), Rock-Eval pyrolysis, maceral compositions, X-ray diffraction (XRD), and biomarker analyses, were carried out on twenty ...The Cretaceous climate was characterized by arid and semiarid conditions in different parts of the world. Climatic changes for the Early to Late Cretaceous had been reported by many authors in North America, East Asia, Africa, and South America due to the geological evolution of Laurasia and Gondwana.In South America, the Bauru Basin, located in Brazil, is one of the most critical places to ...In this article, we have obtained new paleomagnetic and magnetic anisotropy datasets from the upper Cretaceous to lower Eocene sedimentary rocks in the Cuojiangding area, and combined them with published paleomagnetic data, regional geological reports, biostratigraphic ages and U Pb zircon geochronology to discuss their tectonic implications. 2.

The Saratoga Chalk of Arkansas yields a rich ammonite fauna of 17 species, referred to the Nostoceras (N.) hyatti zone. Recognition that the northwest European N. (N.) pozaryskii Blaszkiewicz, 1980, is a synonym of N. (N.) hyatti Stephenson, 1941, and N. (N.) helicinum (Shumard, 1861) dates the zone as latest Campanian on the basis of co-occurrence with Belemnitella langei Jeletzky, 1948, in ...When it comes to the Northwest of Argentina, most of the records come from the Cretaceous rocks of Salta Province, which yielded ceratosaurian abelisauroids like Noasaurus and Guemesia. Preliminary studies of the Los Llanos Formation at Eastern La Rioja Province recognized bone remains of Upper Cretaceous undetermined Abelisauridae and ... Sep 30, 2015 · In the Zagros area and the Persian Gulf, Upper Cretaceous carbonate sequences are among the most important hydrocarbon reservoirs. In this study, facies analysis and stratigraphic interpretation of these sequences, Cenomanian-Santonian in age, have been carried out in subsurface sections from various parts of the Zagros area (including the Dezful Embayment and Fars Province) and the Persian ... Ages of the Upper Cretaceous strata are well established from radiometric dating and from marine layers of the fossiliferous Mancos Group, which is as much as a mile thick in eastern Utah. Farther north, the North Horn Formation of central Utah contains dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus and Torosaurus that lived about 65 million years ago, at the ...Instagram:https://instagram. kuhealthku men's bb schedulepaul kopeckyshelly mann In the early Cretaceous, many of the southern continents were still joined together as part of the southern landmass called Gondwana. ksu fall semester start datesayote fruit In this work, an assemblage of fossil woods briefly mentioned by Alvarez et al. (2019, 2020) from the Bajo Barreal Formation (Upper Cretaceous of the Golfo San Jorge Basin, in central Patagonia, Argentina) is described in detail, being the second study of woods from this stratigraphic unit, after that of Pujana et al. (2007).New Chondrichthyans from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) of Seymour and James Ross Islands, Antarctica Volume 88, Issue 3 Rodrigo A. Otero (a1) , Carolina Simon Gutstein (a1) , Alexander Vargas (a1) , David Rubilar-Rogers (a2) , Roberto Yury-Yañez (a3) , Joaquin Bastías (a4) and Cristián Ramírez (a4) madagascar beetle The Cretaceous is divided into Early and Late Cretaceous epochs, or Lower and Upper Cretaceous series. In older literature the Cretaceous is sometimes divided into three series: Neocomian (lower/early), Gallic (middle) and Senonian (upper/late). A subdivision in eleven stages, all originating from European stratigraphy, is now used worldwide. ...The paleobiology of the Cretaceous neoselachian shark,Squalicorax, has largely been based on isolated teeth. We examined partial and nearly complete skeletons of three species ofSqualicorax, S. falcatus (Aoassiz),S. kaupi (Agassiz), andS. pristodontus (Agassiz), that were collected from the U.S.A. These specimens suggest that the total body length (TL) ofS. falcatus typically measured 1.8-2. ...