We report the Narmada Seaway began in India during largest global sea-level transgression and Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (OAE2) δ13C excursion late Cenomanian to early Turonian. The progressed eastward Turonian-Coniacian reached Jhilmili by end of Maastrichtian. During this time Godavari Seaways may have joined via Narmada-Tapti rift formed a Trans-India Seaway. history major seaway is entombed fos...

Twenty surface samples were taken from road cuttings along Okpekpe and Imiegba areas located in Benin Flank of Anambra Basin, Nigeria with an aim to establish the biozones, age paleodepositional environments Mamu Formation. Using palynological laboratory standard procedures, shale collected Formation study area prepared analyzed. The recovered marker pollens, spores dinoflagellate cysts are Mil...

Meyers, P.A., 1992. Changes in organic carbon stable isotope ratios across the K/T boundary: global or local control? In: S.A. Macko and M.H. Engel (Guest-Editors), Isotope Fractionations in Organic Matter: Biosynthetic and Diagenetic Processes. Chem. Geol. (Isot. Geosci. Sect. ), l 01: 283-29 I. A global shift in carbonate carbon j~3C-values from heavier values in the Maastrichtian to lighter ...

Late Mesozoic palaeobiogeography has been characterized by a distinction between the northern territories of Laurasia and the southern landmasses of Gondwana. The repeated discovery of Gondwanan lineages in Laurasia has led to the proposal of alternative scenarios to explain these anomalous occurrences. A new biogeographical model for late Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems is here proposed in whi...

Abstract The standard reconstruction of species Orbitoides d’Orbigny into a single lineage during the late Santonian to end Maastrichtian is based upon morphometric data from Western Europe. An irreversible increase in size embryonic apparatus, and formation greater number epi-embryonic chamberlets (EPC) with time, regarded as main evolutionary trends used discrimination. However, assemblages C...

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...

The Late Cretaceous to Early Tertiary subsidence history of the Northern Calcareous Alps (NCA) records the effect of two independent basin formation mechanisms at the northern leading margin of the Austroalpine unit. The terrestrial to shallow-marine sediments of the Lower Gosau Subgroup were deposited mainly within small, fault-bound basins during a phase of strike-slip faulting from the late ...

We analysed field-collected quantitative data of benthic marine molluscs across the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary in Patagonia to identify patterns and processes of biodiversity reconstruction after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. We contrast diversity dynamics from nearshore environments with those from offshore environments. In both settings, Early Palaeogene (Danian) assemblages are str...