Five pterosaur localities are currently known from the Late Cretaceous in the northeastern Aral Sea region of Kazakhstan. Of these, one is Turonian-Coniacian in age, the Zhirkindek Formation (Tyulkili), and four are Santonian in age, all from the early Campanian Bostobe Formation (Baibishe, Akkurgan, Buroinak, and Shakh Shakh). All so far collected and identifiable Late Cretaceous pterosaur bon...

The Upper Cretaceous (?Santonian) Aitym Formation in the central Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan, produced remains of a cimolodontan multituberculate (Uzbekbaatar wardi), a spalacotheriid symmetrodont (cf. Shalbaatar sp.), a deltatheroidan (cf. Deltatherus sp.), possibly the asioryctithere aff. Daulestes sp., possibly two zalambdalestids (Kulbeckia sp. cf. K. kulbecke and aff. Kulbeckia sp.), two s...

The Coniacian-Santonian stages in western North America are characterized by a sparse fossil record. We present here the first account of dinosaur tracks from nine sites Frontier Formation (Coniacian-Santonian) southwestern Montana. Tracks largely preserved distal alluvial facies as sandstone casts, with single example shallow epirelief impression interpreted undertrack. Sandstone casts show si...

The hippuritid rudist bivalves from the Peters Hill Limestone, Jamaica, Barrettia coatesi (Chubb 1968) and Torreites tschoppi Mac Gillavry1937, are revised. B. is shown to be a primitive species of similar in development ruseae Chubb 1968 Clifton but more advanced that an undescribed sp. St Ann's Great River coral bed, Jamaica. T. likely represents youngest specimen this has been figured larger...

In this research, the microbiostratigraphy and depositional environmental implications related to the Surgah Formation at the northern flank of the Kuh-e Sepid anticline in the Lorestan Basin are discussed. A study of small planktonic foraminifera from the 101-m-thick Surgah Formation led to the identification of three Turonian–Santonian biozones: (1) Helvetoglobotruncana helvitica, (2) Margino...

A new genus and species of pemphredonine wasp is described and figured in Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Santonian) amber from Vendée, in northwestern France. Menopsila dupeae n. gen. and sp., is based on a partial male preserved in a small sliver of translucent amber. The genus is placed incertae sedis within the Pemphredonini, as it intermingles features, likely plesiomorphies, of various lin...

The extinct representatives of family are known from the Upper Cretaceous (the Turonian: Pseudocuphosis tristis Nikitsky, 2002 and Archaeserropalpus cretaceus Nikitsky, 2002; the Cognac-Santonian: Archaeoxylita zherichini Nikitsky, 1977). Melandryid beetles are also known from Eocene ambers of Europe. One species was described from Ukrainian amber (Orchesia rasnitzyni Nikitsky, 2011). At least ...

A dentary fragment containing the last two molars (m2-3) from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian-?Campanian) Bostobe Formation exposed at the locality of Shakh Shakh, northeast Aral Sea region, Kazakhstan, is attributed to a new taxon of Zhelestidae, Zhalmouzia bazhanovi, gen. et sp. nov. This specimen is only the second mammal described from Shakh Shakh, the unidentifiable eutherian Beleutinus orl...

The study of planktonic foraminifera of the Ilam and Gurpi formations at Sarvestan area (SE of Shiraz) enables me to find the most standard biozones defined in mediterranean regions, especially Tethysian domain. Seven biozones were determined. Biozones I (Dicarinella concavata zone) and II (Dicarinella asymetrica zone) belong to the Ilam Formation and indicate the Late Coniacian-Early Santonian...