A new sponge from the New Jersey Cretaceous

Two new fossil flowers of magnoliid affinity from the Late Cretaceous of New Jersey.

Two taxa of cupulate magnoliid fossil flowers, Cronquistiflora and Detrusandra, are described from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian, ∼90 million years before present [MYBP]) Raritan (or lower Magothy) Formation of New Jersey. The fossil taxa are represented by flowers at various stages of development, associated fragments of cup-shaped floral receptacles with attached anthers, and isolated anthers...

Shell Color and Predation in the Cretaceous Oyster Pycnodonte Convexa from New Jersey

Original shell coloration, preserved as radial bands in a gryphaeid oyster species from the Upper Cretaceous Navesink Formation in New Jersey, record a history of predation attempts by durophagous predators through the life of the oyster. A majority of left valves of the oyster Pycnodonte convexa preserve original shell coloration in the form of reddish brown radial bands, similar to those repo...

A formicine in New Jersey cretaceous amber (Hymenoptera: formicidae) and early evolution of the ants.

A worker ant preserved with microscopic detail has been discovered in Turonian-aged New Jersey amber [ca. 92 mega-annum (Ma)]. The apex of the gaster has an acidopore and, thus, allows definitive assignment of the fossil to the large extant subfamily Formicinae, members of which use a defensive spray of formic acid. This specimen is the only Cretaceous record of the subfamily, and only two othe...

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A new titanosaur sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil.

A new titanosaur dinosaur, Brasilotitan nemophagus gen. et sp. nov., is described from the Adamantina Formation (Turonian-Santonian, Bauru Basin). The specimen consists of a dentary, cervical and sacral vertebrae, one ungual and remains of the pelvic region, that were collected near Presidente Prudente city, Sdo Paulo State. It shows a mandible with an 'L' shaped morphology, with the symphyseal...