We investigate the present-day orogenic architecture of Pyrenean-Cantabrian junction corresponding to a boundary between inverted rift segments using seismic interpretation, field data, and borehole information. This was formerly attributed major NNE-SSW striking Pamplona transfer fault segmenting Basque-Cantabrian Mauléon basins during both rifting convergence. Our study shows that results fro...

Modern hydrothermal vent communities are based on chemosynthesis by microbial primary producers. Molecular phylogenetic divergence estimates indicate that many of the dominant taxa arose during Cenozoic and Cretaceous; however, fossil record from these time periods is poor. One occurrence such Cretaceous pertains to six volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits in Troodos ophiolite Cyprus. These r...

Paleoepidemiology (the study of disease and trauma in prehistoric populations) provides insight into the distribution of disease and can have implications for interpreting behavior in extinct organisms. A monospecific bonebed of the giant carcharodontosaurid Mapusaurus (minimum number of individuals = 9) from the Cañadón del Gato site, Neuquén Province, Argentina (Cenomanian) provides a rare op...

A noteworthy diversity of Dipnoi tooth plates has been collected in the fossiliferous conglomerates of the Alcântara Formation, early Cenomanian (Cretaceous) of Brazil. This sequence was deposited under transitional (estuarine) conditions, gathering reworked dissociated fossils represented by plants, fishes, crocodylomorphs, pterosaurs and dinosaurs. A new species of Dipnoi is reported in this ...

Angiosperms evolved rapidly in the late Mesozoic. Data from the genetic-based approach called ’molecular clock’ permit an evaluation of the radiation of flowering plants through geological time and of the possible influences of Mesozoic mass extinctions. A total of 261 divergence ages of angiosperm families are considered. The radiation of flowering plants peaked in the Albian, early Campanian,...