The holotype of Brancasaurus brancai is one of the most historically famous and anatomically complete Early Cretaceous plesiosaurian fossils. It derived from the Gerdemann & Co. brickworks clay pit near Gronau (Westfalen) in North Rhine-Westphalia, northwestern Germany. Stratigraphically this locality formed part of the classic European "Wealden facies," but is now more formally attributed to t...

Colymbosaurus is a genus of long-necked plesiosaurian represented by two valid species: C. megadeirus from the Upper Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Kimmeridgian–Tithonian) of the United Kingdom and C. svalbardensis from the Slottsmøya Member of the Agardhfjellet Formation (Tithonian–Berriasian) of Svalbard, Norway. Due to the lack of complete and articulated skeletons and a near absence of cranial ...

Terrestrial ecosystems from the Lower Cretaceous of Europe and bonebeds formed in swampy environments are poorly known. The Berriasian-early Valanginian Angeac-Charente site France represents an example both. Nine field campaigns have yielded thousands fossils over a hundred taxa, including 16 taxa vertebrate macroremains with numerous trample crocodile bite marks; 22 abundant microremains; >10...

Eleven boreholes and one outcrop of the Lower Cretaceous in South Dobrogea (south-eastern Romania) were sampled for charophytes. Twenty species are described illustrated two non-marine rock units, Z?voaia Member Gherghina Formation. The contains a charophyte assemblage dominated by Feistiella bijuescensis, aff. Mesochara harrisii, Nodosoclavator bradleyi, Clavator bilateralis, grovesii var. gro...

The Inner Moray Firth Basin (IMFB) forms the western arm of North Sea trilete rift system that initiated mainly during Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous with widespread development major NE-SW-trending dip-slip growth faults. IMFB is superimposed over southern part older Devonian Orcadian Basin. potential influence rift-related faults on kinematics later Mesozoic basin opening has received little ...

Most of the Caribbean plate, which currently lies between American continents, represents a mantle plume-derived 8–20 km thick Cretaceous oceanic plateau that was formed in Pacific region and moved eastwards. The northern islands are largely made up dismembered island arc located along western entrance to inter-American (termed Great Arc Caribbean) mid-late Cretaceous. Importantly, timing litho...

the berriasian-valanginian fahliyan formation forms one of the giant reservoirs in the subsurface of the abadan plain, onshore iran. a detailed petrographical analysis of the available cores and thin sections revealed that the different diagenetic parameters influenced the reservoir quality of the fahliyan formation in this field. the fahliyan formation has been influenced by three diagenetic e...

Abstract We investigate the tectonic evolution of Wetterstein and Mieming mountains in western Northern Calcareous Alps (NCA) European Eastern Alps. In-sequence NW-directed stacking thrust sheets this thin-skinned foreland belt lasted from Hauterivian to Cenomanian. In more internal NCA major E-striking intracontinental transform faults dissected at Albian–Cenomanian boundary that facilitated a...

Non-marine Cretaceous rocks are widespread in northeastern Thailand and is well known as “the red bed” Khorat Group. The Sao Khua Formation the upper half of Group which comprised six formations. This formation was named defined at type section for between restricted PhraWihan Phu Phan drainage area Huai Khua, an intermittent stream that flows westward parallel to highway Nong Bua Lamphu UdonTh...