BACKGROUND Ichthyosauria is a diverse clade of marine amniotes that spanned most of the Mesozoic. Until recently, most authors interpreted the fossil record as showing that three major extinction events affected this group during its history: one during the latest Triassic, one at the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary (JCB), and one (resulting in total extinction) at the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary...

Brachiopod faunas from the Aptian- Cenomanian Vezk section in southwesternIran comprise ten species in six genera, namely Sellithyris cenomanensis, Sellithyris tornacensis, Sellithyris phaseolina, Phaseolina phaseolina, Tropeothyris sp., Concinnithyris subundata, Kingena arenosa, Cyclothyris difformis, Cyclothyris sp. and Cyclothyris compressa. All species are recorded for the first time from t...

The organic carbon isotope (δ13Corg) curve for ~1.7-km-thick mid-Cretaceous strata of the Chaqiela section in Gamba area, southern Tibet is presented in this study. C-isotopic chemostratigraphic correlation combined with biostratigraphic constraints show that the Chaqiela section spans early Aptian through early Campanian period, and that almost all of the carbon cycle perturbations and Oceanic...

Abstract Reconstruction of Aptian–Albian paleoclimate obtained from marine records remains a challenging topic, but studies on coeval terrestrial and trigger mechanisms have lagged substantially. In this study, new multiproxy data mudrocks in the Fuxin Basin NE China provide high-resolution climate record East Asia. Here, we demonstrate occurrence cooling during late Aptian (118–113 Ma), which ...

Cretaceous planktonic foraminifers from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 130 consist of two age groups: one dominantly Aptian in age and the other dominantly Maastrichtian. The oldest dated sediments from Ontong Java Plateau occur at ODP Site 807 and are assigned to the early Aptian Globigerinelloides blowi Zone. The assemblage correlates closely with Aptian foraminifers from Deep Sea Drilling ...

Abstract A combined micropalaeontological, taphonomical and sedimentological study was carried out in the non-marine Barremian of Maestrat Basin (E Iberian Chain) to elucidate palaeoecology charophytes. Understanding fossil charophytes is prime importance for accurate application charophyte biozonations, since most species used as biostratigraphic markers and/or biozone index are restricted fac...

The echinoid fauna of Basab area (Aptian), northwest of Kerman, is fairly rich and diverse, represented by Pygaulidae, Acropeltidae, Emiratiidae, Toxasteridae, Holectypidae, Stomechinidae and Saleniidae. Four regular echinoid species, among which three are new, assigned to genus Tetragramma Agassiz, are described and illustrated in the present paper. The new species are Tetragramma basabensis, ...

Worldwide, a growing number of modern coastal marine ecosystems are increasingly exposed to suboxic- or even anoxic conditions. Low seawater oxygen levels trigger significant ecosystem changes and may result in mass mortality oxygen-sensitive biota. The applicability observations from recent (anthropogenically influenced) suboxic settings fossil shallow-marine environments is, however, as yet p...

Integrated sedimentological, palynological, and palynofacies analyses of the Arrifes section in central Algarve Basin (southern Portugal) provided new information on age environments this Lower Cretaceous sequence. The sedimentary succession at consists fossiliferous interbedded limestones, marly marls, dated as latest Hauterivian to late Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) based key dinoflagellate ta...