The Pierre Shale is a marine deposit that accumulated in the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway during the onset of Laramide tectonism in the southern Rocky Mountains region. In the eastern part of the Raton Basin near Trinidad, Colorado, ammonite biostratigraphy suggests that the base of the Pierre Shale lies within or slightly above the Lower Campanian Scaphites hippocrepis III ammonite range...

We provide a thorough re-evaluation of the taxonomic diversity, phylogenetic relationships, and historical biogeography of the lambeosaurine hadrosaurids from the European Archipelago. Previously published occurrences of European Lambeosaurinae are reviewed and new specimens collected from upper Maastrichtian strata of the south-central Pyrenees are described. No support is found for the recogn...

in present study, diversity and relative abundance of calcareous nannofossils of the boundary between abtalkh and neyzar formations in dobaradar, kalat and chahchaheh sections were studied. taxonomical studies of calcareous nannofossils in the studied areas led to identification of 24 species in dobaradar, 27 species in kalat and 32 species in chahchaheh sections. based on identified nannofossi...

BACKGROUND The earliest crocodylians are known primarily from the Late Cretaceous of North America and Europe. The representatives of Gavialoidea and Alligatoroidea are known in the Late Cretaceous of both continents, yet the biogeographic origins of Crocodyloidea are poorly understood. Up to now, only one representative of this clade has been known from the Late Cretaceous, the basal crocodylo...

Cretaceous planktonic foraminifers from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 130 consist of two age groups: one dominantly Aptian in age and the other dominantly Maastrichtian. The oldest dated sediments from Ontong Java Plateau occur at ODP Site 807 and are assigned to the early Aptian Globigerinelloides blowi Zone. The assemblage correlates closely with Aptian foraminifers from Deep Sea Drilling ...

Three drivers of subsidence are recognized in the Western Interior Basin: Mesozoic–early Cenozoic flexure adjacent to thin-skinned, eastward propagating Sevier Orogeny, Late Cretaceous–Eocene associated with thick-skinned Laramide Uplifts and Cretaceous dynamic subsidence. This study combines outcrop lithofacies, palaeocurrent measurements, detrital zircon geochronology, biostratigraphy, strati...

Ectotherms have close physiological ties with the thermal environment; consequently, the impact of future climate change on their biogeographic distributions is of major interest. Here, we use the modern and deep-time fossil record of testudines (turtles, tortoises, and terrapins) to provide the first test of climate on the niche limits of both extant and extinct (Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian...

Abstract The structure and tectonic evolution of the Cretaceous rift basins southern Egypt are poorly understood. In this study, tectonostratigraphy Komombo Basin has been determined using seismic, well biostratigraphic data. basin is compared to Kharit, Nuqra Beni Suef in as Muglad Sudan. a 58 km long, 28 wide NW–SE trending half‐graben infilled with 2200 m Berriasian‐Maastrichtian sediments o...