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Following extensive Late Triassic coral-constructed reefs and the aftermath of the end-Triassic mass extinction, Early Jurassic buildups are rare and constructed primarily by bivalves. The Pliensbachian exhibits a radiation of aberrant pterioid bivalves, the “Lithiotis” facies b…

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 …

The "Rides Prerifaines" of northern Morocco represent an unusual type of inversion that inverts only the sedimentary fill of a complex Triassic-lower Jurassic half-graben system, without significantly involving the underlying basement. Frontal and lateral ramp anticlines form ov…

Two paleogeographic configurations of the Jurassic of western North America have been proposed with differing locations of the entrance to the Jurassic Sundance Seaway, referred to as the southern-entrance and northern-entrance hypotheses. Here, analyses of facies architecture, …