The Berriasian-Valanginian Fahliyan Formation forms one of the giant reservoirs in the subsurface of the Abadan plain, onshore Iran. A detailed petrographical analysis of the available cores and thin sections revealed that the different diagenetic parameters influenced the reservoir quality of the Fahliyan Formation in this field. The Fahliyan Formation has been influenced by three diagenetic e...

Xenoposeidon proneneukos gen. et sp. nov. is a neosauropod represented by BMNH R2095, a well-preserved partial mid-to-posterior dorsal vertebra from the Berriasian– Valanginian Hastings Beds Group of Ecclesbourne Glen, East Sussex, England. It was briefly described by Lydekker in 1893, but it has subsequently been overlooked. This specimen’s concave cotyle, large lateral pneumatic fossae, compl...

the berriasian-valanginian fahliyan formation forms one of the giant reservoirs in the subsurface of the abadan plain, onshore iran. a detailed petrographical analysis of the available cores and thin sections revealed that the different diagenetic parameters influenced the reservoir quality of the fahliyan formation in this field. the fahliyan formation has been influenced by three diagenetic e...

BACKGROUND Recent work on the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition of the Iberian Range (Spain) has opened a new window onto the interpretation of the trackmakers of some medium-sized tridactyl tracks. The ichnotaxon Therangospodus oncalensis has been described in the Huérteles Formation (Berriasian) and is one of the classical tracks from the area assigned to medium-sized theropods. METHODOLOGY/PR...

A complete ichthyosaur rostrum, with 124 associated teeth, was recently discovered in Laux-Montaux locality, department of Drôme, southeastern France. The associated belemnites and ammonites indicate a late Valanginian age (Neocomites peregrinus Zone, Olcostephanus nicklesi Subzone) for this fossil, which consequently represents the first diagnostic ichthyosaur ever reported from Valanginian st...

Variations in the carbon isotopic composition of carbonate and organic (?13Ccarb ?13Corg) are generally used to record perturbations global cycle, which turn closely linked changes climate. However, because climate gradients on Earth, assignment “global” signal ancient records is not straightforward. Here, we report ?13C values material Upper Jurassic Lower Cretaceous sedimentary Vaca Muerta Fo...

The non-marine trigonioidid bivalves show five phases of radiation in the Cretaceous of Pal-Asia: pre-Aptian (?Valanginian/Hauterivian-Barremian), Aptian, Albian, Cenomanian and Turonian-Maastrichtian. Their distribution patterns show two distinct palaeo-river systems feeding trigonioidids. Before the Cenomanian, the river system occupied the southwestern-southern-southeastern Pal-Asian contine...

The Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary transition is widely distributed within the West Cameros Basin. This horizon constituted by Tera Group, consisting of two depositional sequences (DS1 and DS2) comprising four geological formations spanning Tithonian to Berriasian. Here, a combined sedimentological palynostratigraphic study was made covering Group. results for DS 1 differentiate three facies asso...

The Meillon (Callovo-Oxfordian) and Mano (Tithonian) Formations are dolomitized carbonate reservoirs that actively produce oil gas (Aquitaine Basin, France). In this study, the dolomitization conditions of their counterparts exhumed in northwestern Pyrenees detailed using a combination field observations, petrography, fluid inclusion microthermometry, elemental isotopic geochemistry, U–Pb geoch...