A comprehensive study of Maastrichtian planktic foraminiferal populations from low and midlatitudes localities provides crucial knowledge on the paleoecology and life strategies of individual species, and new insights their biotic response to climatic perturbations preceding the…
Although the Cretaceous continental tetrapod record of Gondwanan landmasses remains inadequately characterized, recent paleontological efforts have begun to improve this situation. This dissertation describes several new dinosaurian and crocodyliform discoveries from Late Cretac…
The Sakarya Continent (= SC), whose deposits are located in northwest Turkey, was a continental fragment between two ocean basins during the later half of the Mesozoic. Late Jurassic and Cretaceous radiolarians from SC and from a sedimentary mélange (Damlaagacderesi Sedimentary …
During the Cretaceous the Caribbean was home to vast carbonate platforms where rudist bivalves contributed extensively to reef development. Carbonate platforms have been well-studied in Mexico and Texas, but less so in some Caribbean islands. On the island of Puerto Rico, the Ba…
Caenagnathidae is a clade of derived oviraptorosaurian theropods that existed in both Asia and North America during the late Cretaceous, forming the sister clade to Oviraptoridae. While the oviraptorids are known from many well-preserved fossils including brooding specimens and …