The Cenomanian to early Santonian interval is usually considered a time of postrifting tectonic quiescence around the northern margins Iberia that preceded onset Pyrenean convergence by crustal thrusting in latest Santonian. However, plate kinematic models Mesozoic evolution poorly constrain Turonian-Santonian position relative Eurasia. This study reconstructs changes sedimentary facies and arc...

A sample of six probable fragmentary ankylosaur ossicles, collected from Cenomanian deposits of the Dunvegan Formation along the Peace River, represent one of the first dinosaurian skeletal fossils reported from pre-Santonian deposits in Alberta. Specimens were identified as ankylosaur by means of a palaeohistological analysis. The primary tissue is composed of zonal interwoven structural fibre...

The fossil psocodeans from Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Santonian) amber of Vendée, in northwestern France, are studied. Two new genera and three new species are described and illustrated, as Proprionoglaris axioperierga n. sp. (Archaeatropidae), Scocompus atelisus n. gen. and sp. (uncertain family within the Amphientometae), and Mesopsocoides dupei n. gen. and sp. (earliest fossil record of ...

Most of the Caribbean plate, which currently lies between American continents, represents a mantle plume-derived 8–20 km thick Cretaceous oceanic plateau that was formed in Pacific region and moved eastwards. The northern islands are largely made up dismembered island arc located along western entrance to inter-American (termed Great Arc Caribbean) mid-late Cretaceous. Importantly, timing litho...

The Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) Iharkút terrestrial vertebrate locality, in Hungary, has yielded several lacertilian taxa since its discovery in 2000. One of these is represented by a left mandible fragment and two dentary fragments. The characters observed on these remains support assignment to the family Chamopsiidae (Scincomorpha). Moreover, the remains belong to a new genus and species, Pe...

Two new caddisfly species Archaeopolycentra turvalsia sp. n. and achupomotet (Polycentropodidae) from Late Cretaceous Taymyr amber (Santonian, Kheta Formation, 85 Ma) are described illustrated. Totally, now the list of caddisflies includes 13 species, family Polycentropodidae is represented by five species.

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...

BACKGROUND Rhabdodontid ornithopod dinosaurs are characteristic elements of Late Cretaceous European vertebrate faunas and were previously collected from lower Campanian to Maastrichtian continental deposits. Phylogenetic analyses have placed rhabdodontids among basal ornithopods as the sister taxon to the clade consisting of Tenontosaurus, Dryosaurus, Camptosaurus, and Iguanodon. Recent studie...