Although plant-arthropod relationships underpin the dramatic rise in diversity and ecological dominance of flowering plants and their associated arthropods, direct observations of such interactions in the fossil record are rare, as these ephemeral moments are difficult to preserve. Three-dimensionally preserved charred remains of Chloranthistemon flowers from the Late Albian to Early Cenomanian...

The fossil psocodeans from Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Santonian) amber of Vendée, in northwestern France, are studied. Two new genera and three new species are described and illustrated, as Proprionoglaris axioperierga n. sp. (Archaeatropidae), Scocompus atelisus n. gen. and sp. (uncertain family within the Amphientometae), and Mesopsocoides dupei n. gen. and sp. (earliest fossil record of ...

Shallow marine deposits characterize the upper Albian – lower Cenomanian of Northern Algeria. In Djebel Azzeddine (Ouled Nail Mounts), corresponding sediments have been subdivided into three distinctive units A to C. The first discovered ammonite fauna from Bou Saada area allowed attribution a part mid-Cretaceous post-Continental Intercalaire Albian. ammonite-bearing level indicates maximum flo...

The fossil record of cuttlefish, squid and octopus has received relatively little attention. Among malacologists, the opinion is widespread that these mainly softbodied coleoids have a poor fossil record. However, thanks to Konservat-Lagerst tten such as the Early Jurassic Posidonian Shales of Holzmaden (Germany), the Middle Jurassic La-Voulte-sur-Rh ne (France) and the Late Jurassic Limestones...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The mid-Cretaceous is a period of sudden turnover from gymnosperm to angiosperm-dominated floras. The aim was to investigate the fossil plant ecology in order to follow the spread of angiosperm taxa. METHODS Floristic lists and localities from the latest Albian-Cenomanian of Europe are analysed with Wagner's Parsimony Method, a clustering method currently used in phylogeny...

The external and internal features the microstructure of asymmetric rhynchonellides from Albian–Cenomanian (Cretaceous) transition Alicante Province (Eastern Prebetic, Southeastern Spain) have been herein studied. Previous authors placed these in Cyclothyris difformis , consequently attributing an unquestionable Cenomanian age (Upper Cretaceous) to deposits which they appear. long dorsall...