An isolated, articulated, but crushed ossified lung of a mawsoniid coelacanth is reported from uppermost Cretaceous (upper Maastrichtian) Oued Zem, Morocco. The specimen the last record before their pseudo-extinction at end Mesozoic. also first marine in Mesozoic Morocco and occurrence coelacanths phospahte deposits North Africa. large size suggests fish estimated between 3.65 m 5.52 total body...

BACKGROUND Secondary adaptation to aquatic life occurred independently in several amniote lineages, including reptiles during the Mesozoic and mammals during the Cenozoic. These evolutionary shifts to aquatic environments imply major morphological modifications, especially of the feeding apparatus. Mesozoic (250-65 Myr) marine reptiles, such as ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurid squamates, c...

Three well - known source rocks of the Zagros basin and the Persian Gulf are Mesozoic in age.The Jurassic Sargelu, Albian Kazhdumi and Neocomian-Coniacian Garau formations have charged the Cretaceous reservoirs of this area. The northwest part of the Persian Gulf is strongly influenced by two major N-S trending paleohighs (Hendijan- Bahregansar-Regesafid-Izeh and Kharge- Mish) and surrounding p...

Speed estimations from trackways of Titanopodus mendozensis González Riga and Calvo provide information about the locomotion of titanosaurian sauropods that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous. Titanopodus ichnites were found at Agua del Choique, a newly discovered track site in the Loncoche Formation, Late Campanian-Early Maastrichtian of Mendoza, Argentina. This speed study foll...

Abstract A late early Maastrichtian dinosaur trampling site is reported from the Farrokhi Formation of Khur area, Central Iran. The largely indeterminate footprints, some which may represent undertracks, can be classified as natural moulds (i.e. concave epireliefs) bordered by a raised rim displaced sediment. They reach diameters up to 0.5 m and were impressed under very shallow subaerial condi...

A historic specimen described for the first time revealed important autapomorphic characters, permitting definition of a new species, Javelinadactylus sagebieli gen. n. et sp. n., which represents second toothless species from Javelina Formation, Big Bend National Park West Texas (United States America). The remains J. (Azhdarchoidea: Tapejaridae) were found in 1986, but never properly studied,...