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...

Detrital zircon U-Pb ages for 30 Late Jurassic and Cretaceous sandstones from the Eastern Province of eastern New Zealand, combined with previously-published geochronological and palaeontological data, constrain the time of deposition in the Pahau and Waioeka terranes of the Cretaceous accretionary margin of Zealandia, and their adjacent cover strata. The zircon age patterns also constrain poss...

Ornithomimosaurs (ostrich-mimic dinosaurs) are a common element of some Cretaceous dinosaur assemblages of Asia and North America. Here, we describe a new species of ornithomimosaur, Beishanlong grandis, from an associated, partial postcranial skeleton from the Aptian-Albian Xinminpu Group of northern Gansu, China. Beishanlong is similar to another Aptian-Albian ornithomimosaur, Harpymimus, wit...

Pterosaur remains from the Río Belgrano Formation, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, were found close to the Estancia Río Roble, along with several ammonoids that indicate a Barremian age for those strata. The specimens (MACN-SC 3617) consist of one ulna and one element tentatively identified as a portion of a wing metacarpal. The ulna shows morphological affinities with the Pteranodontoidea (sen...

A single brachiosaurid sauropod cervical vertebra from the Wessex Formation (Barremian, Early Cretaceous) of the Isle of Wight is remarkable for its size. With a partial centrum length (i.e., excluding evidence of the anterior condyle) of 745 mm it represents the largest sauropod cervical reported from Europe and is close in size to cervical vertebrae of the giant brachiosaurid Brachiosaurus br...

Harlanjohnsonella annulata Elliott in Granier & Deloffre, 1993, non 1968, was originally described from Cenomanian strata in Serbia. Herein, we report its first occurrence outside the type area, i.e., in Lebanon, and in older strata, i.e., earliest Bedoulian or Late Barremian in age. Our specimens are compared with topotypic material. The species was recently revised by Radoičić & Schlagintweit...

Abstract In the Alpstein massif of north-eastern Switzerland, a complete succession uppermost Hauterivian to Barremian condensed hemipelagic sediments crops out. This is known as Tierwis Formation, comprising in ascending order, Altmann and Drusberg members. The sedimentary bears number fossiliferous glauconite- or phosphate-rich beds. A large newly discovered ammonites from these key beds seve...

A detailed study of calcareous nannofossil assemblages from twelve uppermost lower Barremian–lower Aptian sections in the Subbetic Domain Betic Cordillera was performed. Seven new species (Crucibiscutum bastetanum, Crucibiscutum gracile, Chiastozygus lamprostauros, Cyclagelosphaera platyaspis, Lithraphidites aichmoides, pugio, and Rhagodiscus sicutclipeus) are described, one is emended (Lithrap...

Early Cretaceous (late Barremian – early Aptian) fissure fill deposits near Balve, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany, have yielded a rich continental vertebrate fauna over the course of last two decades. More than 250 fragmentary specimens, including more 150 osteoderms (i.e., granicones), represent late helochelydrid Helochelydra nopcsai , which had previously been reported from UK, France, and ...