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Meniscoessus robustus – Named by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1889. Remains were discovered in Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) and possibly Paleocene strata of Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota, USA, and the St. Mary's River Formation of Canada. The weight of this species is estimated to have been about 3.3 kilograms (7.3 lb).The regional Cretaceous structural and isopach/lithofacies maps of the Middle East provide a unique overview of the major tectonic and stratigraphic developments in the leading petroleum basin of the World. The structural map of the Near Top Cretaceous and the Upper Cretaceous isopach show that most of the tectonic elements of the region ...The Upper Cretaceous marine succession of the Kristianstad Basin was deposited during a number of transgressive events, when the sea level periodically rose up to about 100 m higher than it is today (Sahagian et al., 1996; Kominz et al., 2008). The relatively small-sized basin was situated at the northeastern margin of the epeiric Chalk …Upper Cretaceous sections at the Tanama River are located on the Sigirte-Nado elevation, surrounded by the Tanama River from the west, north, and east (Fig. 3 B). The Tanama River is the left-bank tributary of the Yenisei River. It is located in the north-eastern part of the West Siberian sedimentary basin (e.g. Kontorovich et al., 2014).

The Upper Cretaceous stratigraphic section has been subdivided into the Quantou, Qingshankou, Yaojia, Nenjiang, Sifangtai and Mingshui formations in ascending order. Late Cretaceous microfossils are diverse and abundant. A detailed biostratigraphic study has subdivided the sequence into high precision biozones: 21 ostracode assemblages, 10 ...English: Map of North America with the Western Interior Seaway during the Campanian (Upper Cretaceous). Paleogeography of North America during the late Campanian Stage of the Late Cretaceous (∼75 Ma). Modified after Blakey. Deutsch: Karte von Nordamerika mit dem Western Interior Seaway während des Campaniums (Obere …

The Kem Kem beds in South Eastern Morocco contain a rich early Upper (or possibly late Lower) Cretaceous vertebrate assemblage. Fragmentary remains, predominantly teeth and jaw tips, represent several kinds of pterosaur although only one species, the ornithocheirid Coloborhynchus moroccensis, has been named.Here, we describe a new azhdarchid pterosaur, Alanqa saharica nov. gen. nov. sp., based ...Research highlights The provenance of upper Cretaceous strata in the Tethys Himalaya provides significant constraints on the closing of the Neo-Tethys Ocean and the initial India–Asia collision. We carried out a detailed provenance study on the upper Cretaceous clastic sedimentary rocks of the northern Tethys Himalaya, near Gyangze, …

The only turtle closest to this size from the Upper Cretaceous of China is Nanhsiungchelys wuchingensis of Nanhsiungchelyidae, in which the carapace length is larger than 111 cm. However, this large turtle was recovered from Nanxiong County, Guangdong Province (Ye, 1966; Tong and Li, 2019).A new enantiornithine bird is described on the basis of a well preserved partial skeleton from the Upper Cretaceous Qiupa Formation of Henan Province (central China). It provides new evidence about the osteology of Late Cretaceous enantiornithines, which are mainly known from isolated bones; in contrast, Early Cretaceous forms are often ...May 31, 2023 · Apatite U–Pb dating of dinosaur teeth from the Upper Cretaceous Nemegt Formation in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia: Contribution to depositional age constraints Along-Strike and Down-Dip Variations in Shallow-Marine Sequence Stratigraphic Architecture: Upper Cretaceous Star Point Sandstone, Wasatch Plateau, Central Utah, U.S.A. Publication Journal of Sedimentary Research

10 de fev. de 2023 ... Upper Cretaceous–Paleocene Magnetostratigraphy of the Longmenshan Foreland Basin and Its Implications for the Tectonic Deformation of the ...

The Austin Group (Coniacian-Santonian) is a sequence of interstratified chalk and marl deposited during a sea-level highstand as a transgressive unit. Austin Chalk deposition occurred on a southeastward-dipping carbonate ramp that exhibits distinctive onshore and offshore chalk lithofacies. Discrete intervals within offshore Austin lithofacies ...

The Upper Cretaceous to Oligocene strata of the Cuesta de Huaco anticline in the Argentine Precordillera record sedimentation, regional deformation, and climate patterns prior to the highly ...In this work, an assemblage of fossil woods briefly mentioned by Alvarez et al. (2019, 2020) from the Bajo Barreal Formation (Upper Cretaceous of the Golfo San Jorge Basin, in central Patagonia, Argentina) is described in detail, being the second study of woods from this stratigraphic unit, after that of Pujana et al. (2007).Madtsoiidae. Madtsoiidae is an extinct family of mostly Gondwanan snakes with a fossil record extending from early Cenomanian ( Upper Cretaceous) to late Pleistocene strata located in South America, Africa, India, Australia and Southern Europe. Madtsoiidae include very primitive snakes, which like extant boas and pythons would likely dispatch ...Upper GSSP ratified. 1991. The Maastrichtian ( / mɑːˈstrɪktiən / mah-STRICK-tee-ən) is, in the ICS geologic timescale, the latest age (uppermost stage) of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or Upper Cretaceous Series, the Cretaceous Period or System, and of the Mesozoic Era or Erathem. It spanned the interval from 72.1 to 66 million years ago.A new Podocnemidinura specimen from the Upper Cretaceous Bauru Group (Paraná Basin) of southeastern Brazil was described. The Bauru Group provided an important portrait of the Brazilian Mesozoic terrestrial biota, which boasts a vertebrate fauna formed from fishes, frogs, lacertilians, crocodyliforms, dinosaurs and mammals; records of palynomorphs; and invertebrate fauna consisted of ...The upper part of the sequence has yielded Cretaceous benthic foraminifers (Rajashekhar 1991) and nannoplankton species Marthastenites furcatus of the Turonian age (Jafar 1982). The marine incursion in the Late Cretaceous is represented by small isolated outcrops of the Bagh Beds in the Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh (Fig. 15.15 ).

the Upper Cretaceous on the North Slope. 5. Conclusions. 1 Late Cretaceous strata along the lower Colville River,. Alaska, record three distinct depositional ...Mantelliceras, with strong, alternately long and short ribs, and tubercles which may be lateral, umbilical, ventrolateral, but never siphonal, is an early member of the super-family Acanthocerataceae which dominate the normally coiled Upper Cretaceous taxa. Early Cenomanian sands with this fauna are exposed in Dorset and Devon.The Upper Cretaceous to Paleogene sequences in the Middle East are characterized by regional anoxic black shale occurrences, enriched in different stratigraphic levels of various local basins (Abed et al., 2005; Almogi-Labin et al. 1990a, 1993; Ashckenazi-Polivoda et al., 2010, 2011; Holbourn et al., 1999; Inan et al., 2010). The studied black ...Abstract Upper Cretaceous strata of the Mahajanga Basin, northwestern Madagascar, yield some of the most significant and exquisitely preserved vertebrate fossils known from Gondwana. The sedimentology of these strata and their stratigraphic relations have been the focus of renewed geological investigations during the course of five expeditions since 1993. We here designate stratotypes and ...The Kem Kem Group (commonly known as the Kem Kem beds) is a geological group in the Kem Kem region of eastern Morocco, whose strata date back to the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous.Its strata are subdivided into two geological formations, with the lower Ifezouane Formation and the upper Aoufous Formation, with the Gara Sbaa Formation …The Cretaceous Continental Scientific Drilling borehole in the Jiaolai Basin (CCSD-LK-I) provides rare samples from the Upper Cretaceous and Paleocene terrestrial strata. This study aims to establish a chronostratigraphical framework for the terrestrial strata of the Jiaolai Basin by integrating magnetostratigraphy and isotope geochronology.Palaeoenvironment of the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Turonian) portion of the Winton Formation, Queensland, Australia. Peer J. e5513. Syme, C.E. and Salisbury, S.W. 2018. Taphonomy of Isisfordia duncani specimens from the Lower Cretaceous (upper Albian) portion of the Winton Formation, Isisford, central-west Queensland.

Upper Cretaceous marine clastic strata (~ 650 ft), which are surmounted by marine carbonate beds (~ 1,150 ft) of latest Cretaceous age. The marine clastic facies thickens northeastward along the coastline to include the entire Upper Cretaceous and extends over Cape Fear Arch, where it is 1,300 ft thick. The Upper Cretaceous marine

A nearly complete skeleton of a new hadrosaurid, Kamuysaurus japonicus gen. et sp. nov., was discovered from the outer shelf deposits of the Upper Cretaceous Hakobuchi Formation of the Yezo Group ...Winton Formation. / -22.3; 143.1. / -51.8; 134.1. The Winton Formation is a Cretaceous geological formation in central-western Queensland, Australia. It is late Albian to early Turonian in age. [2] The formation blankets large areas of central-western Queensland. It consists of sedimentary rocks such as sandstone, siltstone and claystone.Sep 21, 2023 · Introduction. The Upper Cretaceous Nanxiong Formation of Jiangxi Province, southern China has yielded a diverse array of vertebrates in recent years, including theropods (Xu and Han Citation 2010; Wang et al. Citation 2013; Wei et al. Citation 2013; Lü et al. Citation 2013a, Citation 2014, Citation 2015, Citation 2016, Citation 2017; Mo and Xu Citation 2015), ornithopods (Xing et al. Citation ... Goannas evolved in the northern hemisphere in the Upper Cretaceous Period about 90 million years ago. Discover more. Australia through time. This self-led activity gives students a taste of both the cultural and natural history exhibitions at the Museum as they create their own digital story about ‘Australia through time’.The presence of a small to middle-medium sized abelisaurid in the Upper Cretaceous shows that. Author statement. We the authors of "A New Medium-sized Abelisaurid (Theropoda, Dinosauria) from the late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Allen Formation of Northern Patagonia, Argentina." declare that have not submitted this article in another journal ...The intracontinental Benue Trough was initiated during the Lower Cretaceous in relation with the Atlantic Ocean opening. The first stage of its evolution started in the Aptian, forming isolated basins with continental sedimentation. ... In the Albian times, a great delta developed in the Upper Benue Trough, while the first marine transgression ...Field investigation, Microfacies analysis, and biostratigraphy have been carried out in the central parts of the Ionian Basin (Aetoloakarnania area, Western Greece) in order to decipher the depositional environments that developed during the accumulation of the Upper Cretaceous to Eocene carbonate succession. Three different Standard Microfacies types (SMF) have been observed, corresponding to ...Japanese Upper Cretaceous marine reptile fossils occur in five major stratigraphical units: the Yezo, Kuji, Futaba, Izumi, and Goshoura groups (Figs. 1 and 2; Table 1).Many of these specimens were excavated by private collectors and donated to local museums; therefore, their locality data is based solely on museum records and/or published accounts.

Sedimentation effectively terminated in the upper cretaceous (Santonian/Campanian) simultaneous with the earliest development of the Red Sea which bounds the eastern side of the Western Desert basin. The Cretaceous succession in the Komombo basin Concession as shown in Fig. 4 generally consists of six formations from …

The Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous strata, known as the Shamuluo or Rina Formation, overlying the subduction-accretionary complex, is a terrigenous clastic-carbonate rocks over 800 m thick, and contains Spongiomorpha sp., corals, sponges, ammonites, and foraminifera and plant fossils, and the gravels which consists of basic-ultrabasic rocks ...

10 de set. de 2021 ... Reference: “A Late Cretaceous dinosaur and crocodyliform faunal association–based on isolate teeth and osteoderms–at Cerro Fortaleza Formation ( ...The Cretaceous Continental Scientific Drilling borehole in the Jiaolai Basin (CCSD-LK-I) provides rare samples from the Upper Cretaceous and Paleocene terrestrial strata. This study aims to establish a chronostratigraphical framework for the terrestrial strata of the Jiaolai Basin by integrating magnetostratigraphy and isotope geochronology.The upper part of Member 1 (214-155 m) displays a general upwards. Summary and conclusions. Based on TOC and Rock-Eval pyrolysis data, oil shales and organic-rich mudstones of the Upper Cretaceous Qingshankou and Nenjiang formations in the Songliao Basin are excellent source-rocks for oil, containing Type I OM.Sections of the Upper Cretaceous (Coniacian to Campanian) Niobrara Formation in two cores from Kansas and Colorado, the Amoco Rebecca Bounds and USGS Portland 1, respectively, were examined by hyperspectral core imaging and analysis. A spectral imaging system combining high-resolution photography (50 μm), 3D laser profiling (20 μm), and near-visible + short-wave infrared reflectance spectroscopyIn Khalda structure, the Cretaceous section was interpreted on the seismic sections covering the Khalda Oil Field. It is indicated that the Upper Cretaceous Abu Roash and the Lower Cretaceous Alam-El Bueib formations have been affected by normal faulting. Though the implication of folding is minimized, it is traceable in the field.A new genus and species of rove beetle, Afristenus orapensis gen. et sp. nov., is described and figured based on one well-preserved compression fossil from the African, Upper Cretaceous fossil insect deposit, Orapa Diamond Mine in north-east Botswana.Afristenus is definitively placed in the extant subfamily Steninae based on its harpoon-like labial feeding apparatus.The Cretaceous period was the last and longest segment of the Mesozoic era. It lasted approximately 79 million years, from the minor extinction event that closed …Tiny, ornamented eggs and eggshell from the Upper Cretaceous of Utah represent a new ootaxon with theropod affinities Sara E. Oser, Karen Chin, Joseph J. W. …Further offshore are the Upper Cretaceous depocentres of the Morum, Nelson and Hunter sub-basins, and the Discovery Bay High (Totterdell et al, 2014). The Torquay Sub-basin, a largely offshore depocentre, is situated in the northeastern part of the basin and contains a Lower Cretaceous succession similar to that elsewhere in the basin.According to Skourtsis-Coroneou et al. (1995) the Upper Cretaceous deposits, mentioned as "clastic limestones" from the western to eastern part, from the external to internal Ionian zones, consist of: A. In the external (western) parts have a micritic matrix, consist of floatstones, rudstones and rare grainstones and packstones with micritic or biomicritic intercalations.The deposits corresponding to the Upper Cretaceous Neuquén and San Jorge Gulf basins from northern and central Patagonia have provided two of the most complete sequences of terrestrial vertebrate faunas of all Gondwanan landmasses. Among the carnivorous components, the carcharodontosaurid theropods appeared as common elements during the Early ...

To further constrain the India-Asia collisional process, a combined paleomagnetic and geochronologic study has been carried out on the Upper Cretaceous Jingzhushan Formation redbeds and the Lower ...The Cretaceous Maha Sarakham Formation in this area consists of evaporite units (Lower Salt and Middle/Upper Salt) interbedded with clastic sediment. Potash minerals in the upper part of the Lower Salt Unit are associated with an underlying thick bed of rock salt. The δ 11 B values of halite (21.46 ‰-32.62‰) indicated a marine origin ...Jun 1, 2023 · Dinosaurios Cretaceous tetrapods of Argentina; J.F. Bonaparte et al. Los saurópodos de América los grupos Neuquén y Chubut, y sus relaciones cronológicas; J.F. Bonaparte et al. A continental assemblage of tetrapods from the Upper Cretaceous beds of El Brete, northwestern Argentina (Sauropoda, Coelurosauria, Carnosauria, Aves) Instagram:https://instagram. domain zkansas county mapcertificate of entrepreneurshipkletc training calendar Sedimentation effectively terminated in the upper cretaceous (Santonian/Campanian) simultaneous with the earliest development of the Red Sea which bounds the eastern side of the Western Desert basin. The Cretaceous succession in the Komombo basin Concession as shown in Fig. 4 generally consists of six formations from …Lower Cretaceous, but I am confident that it is Cenomanian in age and represents the lower part of the Upper Cretaceous as I stated in my "Upper Cretaceous Floras of the World", and in this I am corroborated by European paleontologists from the fauual evidence. Thus the matter stood until 1925, when W. W. Boyer cyber dynamicsgirard awning tech support Upper Cretaceous oceanic red beds in southern Tibet: A major change from anoxic to oxic, deep-sea environments. Cretac Res, 26: 21-32. Article Google Scholar Wang C, Hu X, Huang Y, Wagreich M, Scott R, Hay W. 2011. Cretaceous oceanic red beds as possible consequence of oceanic anoxic events. Sediment Geol, 235: 27-37Upper Cretaceous stages, Western In terior formations with fossil zones 1-10, and important molluscan species (modifi ed from Stephenson and Reeside, 1938, p.1636- 38). kansas university basketball colors A new troodontid dinosaur, Papiliovenator neimengguensis gen. et sp. nov., from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Wulansuhai Formation at Bayan Manduhu, Inner Mongolia, China, is described here. The holotype (BNMNH-PV030) consists of a nearly complete cranium and fragmentary postcranial bones in semi-articulation and this specimen is inferred as a subadult based on the osteohistological ...The dominant Cretaceous calcispheres. The extinct pithonellid forms dominate late Cretaceous calcisphere assemblages and can occur in rock-forming abundance 6,7,8.Before this study, their ...