Phylogenetic relationships among 122 species of Lauraceae representing 44 of the 55 currently recognized genera are inferred from sequence variation in the chloroplast and nuclear genomes. The trnL-trnF, trnT-trnL, psbA-trnH, and rpll6 regions of cpDNA, and the 5' end of 26S rDNA resolved major lineages, while the ITS/5.8S region of rDNA resolved a large terminal lade. The phylogenetic estimate...

New coleoid cephalopods, assignable to the order Sepiida, are recorded from the Selandian/Thanetian boundary interval (Middle to Upper Paleocene transition, c. 59.2 Ma) along the southeastern margin (Toshka Lakes) of the Western Desert in Egypt. The two genera recognised, Aegyptosaepia n. gen. and ?Anomalosaepia Weaver and Ciampaglio, are placed in the families Belosaepiidae and ?Anomalosaepiid...

The Salt Range, in Pakistan, preserves an insightful sedimentary record of passive margin dynamics along the NW Indian Plate during Mesozoic. This study develops provenance analyses Upper Triassic (Kingriali Formation) to Lower Jurassic (Datta siliciclastics from and Trans Indus ranges based on outcrop analysis, petrography, bulk sediment elemental geochemistry, heavy-mineral data. sandstones a...