A new crocodyliform from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) Presidente Prudente Formation of the Bauru Group is described based on two almost complete skulls and mandibles. The material comes from the "Tartaruguito" site, situated at an old railroad between the cities of Pirapozinho and Presidente Prudente, state of São Paulo, Brazil. The new species, Pepesuchus deiseae gen. et sp. ...

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...

This work characterizes for the first time 500–700 m-thick uppermost Cretaceous continental sedimentary succession of Allueva Fm recorded in northeastern margin Iberian basin, Montalbán subbasin (Maestrazgo domain, Spain). The middle-upper Campanian age this unit constrained here by new paleomagnetic and biostratigraphic data involves major revision previous stratigraphic palaeogeographic inter...

The Western Domain of the Magallanes Fold-and-Thrust Belt (MFTB) between 52°-54°S is part a poorly studied hinterland region southernmost Andean Cordillera. This domain consists NNW-SSE trending tectonic slices pre-Jurassic basement units and Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous ophiolitic complexes volcano-sedimentary successions Rocas Verdes Basin (RVB). New detrital zircon U–Pb ages metatuffs met...

Tyrannosaurids were the apex predators of Late Cretaceous Laurasia and their status as dominant carnivores has garnered considerable interest since discovery, both in popular scientific realms. As a result, they are well studied much is known anatomy, diversity, growth, evolution. In contrast, little earliest stages tyrannosaurid development. Tyrannosaurid eggs embryos remain elusive, juvenile ...

Debate continues about the nature of the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event. An abrupt crisis triggered by a bolide impact contrasts with ideas of a more gradual extinction involving flood volcanism or climatic changes. Evidence from high latitudes has also been used to suggest that the severity of the extinction decreased from low latitudes towards the poles. Here we present a r...

Tyrannosaurid theropods were dominant terrestrial predators in Asia and western North America during the last of the Cretaceous. The known diversity of the group has dramatically increased in recent years with new finds, but overall understanding of tyrannosaurid ecology and evolution is based almost entirely on fossils from latitudes at or below southern Canada and central Asia. Remains of a n...