An abrupt global warming event has been recorded in many parts of the world in sediments of Latest Maastrichtian age between 65.45-65.10 Ma. This warm event was documented here at a section near Ziyarat-kola in Central Alborz based on analysis of planktonic foraminifera. An unusual abundance of normally large-size species such as Globotruncana arca, Globigerinelloides subcarinatus, Pseudoguembe...

The Eastern Anatolian Plateau (EAP), approximately 2000 m above sea level, is located between the Pontides to north, Arabian Platform south, and Iranian east. It characterized by 6 km-thick Maastrichtian Quaternary volcano-sedimentary cover which unconformably overlies continental oceanic basement units. Overall, outcrops of pre-Maastrichtian are rare include both This led drastically different...

in this study biostratigraphy of the upper cretaceous deposits (gurpi formation) in sepidan section located in the interior fars basin (sw iran) was studied. the gurpi formation in this section consists of 360 m lime shale, argillaceous limestone and shale laid continuously on the ilam formation and with a paraconformity under the pabdeh formation. nine genera and 27 species of planktonic foram...

On the basis of stratigraphic ranges reported calcareous nannfossils for several species, two sections Shiranish Formation from Hiran in Erbil Governorate and Smaqoli area Sulaimaniya Governorate, Northern Iraq, are analyzed. Four biozones visible examined region, grouped as follows oldest to youngest: Uniplanarius gothicus Interval zone; Tranolithus phacelosus Rienhardtites lives Micula murus ...

New data on the ammonite genus Pseudokossmaticeras Spath, 1922 have been obtained from several uppermost Campanian–lower Maastrichtian strata of Fore-Balkan Mountains (Bulgaria). A review earlier Bulgarian records is also presented. The following species are here described and illustrated: brandti (Redtenbacher, 1873), P. galicianum (Favre, 1869), muratovi Michailov, 1951 tercense (Seunes, 1892...

The present study represents a detailed systematic of obtained ostracods in sixty three samples from an outcrop section the Shiranish Formation (Campanian – Maastrichtian), Dukan area, Kurdistan, northern Iraq. Thirty ostracod species belonging to twenty one genera are found, whereas nineteen previously recorded. Eleven new described detected, which represented Bairdia dukanensis sp. nov., Bair...