Five pterosaur localities are currently known from the Late Cretaceous in the northeastern Aral Sea region of Kazakhstan. Of these, one is Turonian-Coniacian in age, the Zhirkindek Formation (Tyulkili), and four are Santonian in age, all from the early Campanian Bostobe Formation (Baibishe, Akkurgan, Buroinak, and Shakh Shakh). All so far collected and identifiable Late Cretaceous pterosaur bon...

Six localities in the mid-Cretaceous (early Cenomanian) Khodzhakul Formation, western Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan, produced mammalian remains of a possible zalambdalestoid (Bobolestes), a possible zalambdalestid, and two (Sheikhdzheilia rezvyii, gen. et sp. nov. and Eozhelestes mangit) or three zhelestids (‘‘Zhelestidae’’ indet., unnamed large sp. A). This is termed the Sheikhdzheili local faun...

A skeleton discovered in the Upper Cretaceous Sierra Barrosa Formation (Turonian-Coniacian) of Neuquén Province, Argentina represents a new species of theropod dinosaur related to the long snouted, highly pneumatized Megaraptoridae. The holotype specimen of Murusraptor barrosaensis n.gen et n.sp. (MCF-PVPH-411) includes much of the skull, axial skeleton, pelvis and tibia. Murusraptor is unique ...

Many boreholes have been drilled between Černá Hora town and Závist village to evaluate geohazards that may affect the construction of a new road. The core material from was studied for translucent heavy minerals microfossil content. Translucent mineral assemblages sands are often dominated by staurolite. Cyanite, tourmaline, rutile andalusite, typical Cenomanian sediments Moravia common. Relat...

A worker ant preserved with microscopic detail has been discovered in Turonian-aged New Jersey amber [ca. 92 mega-annum (Ma)]. The apex of the gaster has an acidopore and, thus, allows definitive assignment of the fossil to the large extant subfamily Formicinae, members of which use a defensive spray of formic acid. This specimen is the only Cretaceous record of the subfamily, and only two othe...