Abstract The Jebel Oust region (north-eastern Tunisia) recorded two levels of marine black shale in the Lower Cretaceous marly series. Geodynamic evolution, biostratigraphic and Rock–Eval analysies allow classifying those shales as unconventional oil resource systems that were deposited during oceanic anoxic events: Middel Barremian Event "MBE" Early Aptian "OAE1a". Paleogeographic evolution hi...

The sauropod of El Oterillo II is a specimen that was excavated from the Castrillo de la Reina Formation (Burgos, Spain), late Barremian-early Aptian, in the 2000s but initially remained undescribed. A tooth and elements of the axial skeleton, and the scapular and pelvic girdle, represent it. It is one of the most complete titanosauriform sauropods from the Early Cretaceous of Europe and presen...

Abstract The Schrattenkalk Formation represents a complete succession of Lower Cretaceous shallow-water carbonate platform series cropping out in the Alpstein massif north-eastern Switzerland. is traditionally divided into two sedimentary units, “Lower” and “Upper” Schrattenkalk, separated by more marly Rawil Member. habitually dated to late Barremian, while Member are early Aptian. New field o...

The Mesozoic, mid-Cretaceous (Barremian to Cenomanian) deposits of southern Croatia comprise a succession of shallow tropical-water, inner-platform deposits that formed on a Bahama-type isolated Adriatic carbonate platform in the Dinarides. This succession is dominated by benthic foraminifers and dasycladalean algae, and is exposed in a nearly continuous outcrop section on the islands and along...

During the recent field research on the Tirgan Formation in the west of Kopet-Dagh sedimentary basin, ammonite assemblages were obtained from the carbonate strata of this formation. This new finding is important for stratigraphical purpose. In this research, 3 genera belong to Heteroceras, Deshayesites and Cheloniceras? as well as one uncertain genus belongs to Turkmeniceras are determined. The...

The new taxon Paraclausastrea vorarlbergensis sp. nov. is described from the upper Barremian-lower Aptian (Schrattenkalk Fm.) of western Austria (Vorarlberg). It belongs to the montlivaltiids and is characterized by thamnasterioid to submeandroid corallite integration, diameters of corallites ranging between 3 and 6.5 mm, and septa that are generally developed in 4 incomplete cycles in 6 genera...