A tectonically-controlled forced regression occurred on the western margin of French subalpine basin around Aptian–Albian boundary. It nearly emptied part Vocontian Trough during early and middle Albian. compressional pulse associated with vertical movements along Cevennes fault row its satellites is inferred. This correlated an inverse transgressive trend, both in Paris Basin northern chains. ...

Atolls are faithful recorders helping us understand eustatic variations, the evolution of carbonate production through time, and changes in magmatic hotspots activity. Several early Cretaceous Mid-Pacific atolls were previously investigated ocean drilling, but due to low quality vintage seismic data available, few spatial constraints exist on their stratigraphic large-scale diagenesis. Here, we...

Ecosystem structure—that is the species present, functions they represent, and how those interact—is an important determinant of community stability. This in turn affects ecosystems respond to natural anthropogenic crises, whether or ecological that represent are able persist. Here we use fossil data from museum collections, literature, Paleobiology Database reconstruct trophic networks Tethyan...

a new species of cassiduloid echinoids, pygaulus baghinensis is reported for the first time from aptian sediments of baghin area, west of kerman, iran. the diagnostic features of the species are centrally positioned of the apical disc and approximately low profile of the test. variation in gonopore size in different individuals allows to conclude that p. baghinensis is sexually dimorphic. speci...