Fossil Stomatocysts in Upper Cretaceous Sedimentary Pyrite from Central Mexico

A gigantic bird from the Upper Cretaceous of Central Asia.

We describe an enormous Late Cretaceous fossil bird from Kazakhstan, known from a pair of edentulous mandibular rami (greater than 275 mm long), which adds significantly to our knowledge of Mesozoic avian morphological and ecological diversity. A suite of autapomorphies lead us to recognize the specimen as a new taxon. Phylogenetic analysis resolves this giant bird deep within Aves as a basal m...

Upper Cretaceous Continental Vertebrate Assemblages from Metaliferi Sedimentary Area: Systematics, Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography

Upper Cretaceous Foraminifera from Japan

IN THIS PAPER the discovery in Japan of smaller Foraminifera from the Upper Cretaceous strata is recorded for the firsi: time. This contribution, in addition to its specific biostratigraphic application in Japan, has further interest by reason of its extension of the geo. graphic range ,of the widely distributed Cretaceous pelagic foraminiferan, Globotruncana. In the north Pacific region, Globo...

New turtle egg fossil from the Upper Cretaceous of the Laiyang Basin, Shandong Province, China.

A new type of turtle egg fossil was established: Emydoolithus laiyangensis oogen. et oosp. nov.. Based on its elliptical morphological shape, rigid eggshells, and eggshell characteristics, it is different from other types of round chelonian egg fossils. It is the second chelonian egg fossil found in Cretaceous in China. This discovery shows the Laiyang ecosystem in Late Cretaceous is more diver...

Upper Triassic Tetrapods from the Lucero Uplift, Central New Mexico

Six localities in the lower Chinle Group of central New Mexico yield a tetrapod fauna consisting of the diminutive metoposaurid cf. Apachesaurus sp., and indeterminate large metoposaurids (probably Buettneria sp.), the phytosaur Rutiodon sp., indeterminate phytosaurs, the aetosaurs Desmatosuchus sp. and cf Stagonolepis sp., a probable theropod, and other, indeterminate archosaurs. Five of these...