The occurrence of paleo-wildfire events during the Campanian age Late Cretaceous is demonstrated in this study for first time with deposits from King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula. With aim providing information that fills important paleoenvironmental and paleobiogeographic gaps about end Gondwana, samples macroscopic charcoal were collected at two different volcani...

Abstract. The Polish Basin is a part of trans-European sedimentary basin comprising the Central European System and stretching from Denmark through Germany to southeastern Poland, even further south into Ukraine. It experienced uplift during Late Cretaceous, which consequently resulted in inversion its axial (i.e., Mid-Polish Trough) development Anticlinorium. In many existing paleotectonic int...

Pre-Mesozoic exotic crystalline blocks within the Outer Carpathian flysch have potential to unravel nature of their eroded basement source(s) and reconstruct Paleozoic–Precambrian history Protocarpathians. Strongly tectonized Campanian–Maastrichtian grey marls in Subsilesian Nappe Western Carpathians Poland contain a variety different lithology types, including granitoids andesites. Petrologica...

Isolated small theropod teeth are abundant in vertebrate microfossil assemblages, and are frequently used in studies of species diversity in ancient ecosystems. However, determining the taxonomic affinities of these teeth is problematic due to an absence of associated diagnostic skeletal material. Species such as Dromaeosaurus albertensis, Richardoestesia gilmorei, and Saurornitholestes langsto...

—Mesozoic marine ecosystems were dominated by several clades of reptiles, including sauropterygians, ichthyosaurs, crocodylomorphs, turtles, and mosasaurs, that repeatedly invaded ocean ecosystems. Previous research has shown that marine reptiles achieved great taxonomic diversity in the Middle Triassic, as they broadly diversified into many feeding modes in the aftermath of the Permo-Triassic ...

During the Late Cretaceous, the continent of North America was divided into two sections: Laramidia in the west and Appalachia in the east. Although the sediments of Appalachia recorded only a sparse fossil record of dinosaurs, the dinosaur faunas of this landmass were different in composition from those of Laramidia. Represented by at least two taxa (Appalachiosaurus montgomeriensis and Drypto...

The Cretaceous Period is considered the archetypical greenhouse interval, yet there mounting evidence for intermittent cooler climatic phases throughout this geologic span. Few continental climate histories exist south of paleoequator, and fewer still Africa during time. Galula Formation one few exposed fossiliferous sedimentary successions from what now subequatorial that also contains paleoso...

Little detail has been reported about the ancient Capua leg, which was excavated in winter of 1884/85 a few kilometers from present-day Campanian town Santa Maria Vetere and dated to 300 B.C. [...]

Ecological studies of extant tetrapod predators indicate that morphologically similar species which coexist in the same habitats routinely reduce interspecific competition for food by regular spacing of body size. The biggest predator species in the assemblage often differ more from one another in size than the smallest species. When coexisting carnivore species do not differ greatly in size, t...