Based on a review of troodontid specimens from the territories of the former Soviet Union, including new discoveries from Uzbekistan, two dental morphotypes can be distinguished among Troodontidae from the Cretaceous of Asia: (1) unserrated teeth, present in Mei from Lujiatun (China; Early Cretaceous: Hauterivian-Barremian), an unnamed taxon from Hövöör (Mongolia; Early Cretaceous: Aptian-Albia...

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...

Abstract Despite the previous interpretations of evolutionary scenarios Qatar Arch, present study aimed to a new complementary scenario lay out probable effects another basement fault, corresponding physical shape Arch. A remote sensing was carried based on geological and geophysical data interpretations, obtained from some national international databases, including GIS-based global geology Ha...

In Western Kopet Dagh, the lower Cretaceous carbonate series contains distinctive assemblages of calcareous algae, chiefly Dasycladales which are primarily studied in this work. Based on the significant presence of certain species, the Zard Formation, assigned to the Valanginian and, in its upper part, to the Hauterivian or base of the Barremian, is subdivided into two intervals, respectively A...

New material of an iguanodontid styracosternan ornithopod from the Lower Cretaceous Iberian Peninsula is described. The cranial and postcranial skeletal remains are Barranco del Hocino-1 site. These fossils (Iguanodontidae sensu Xu et al., 2018) represent first medium-sized Upper Sequence Blesa Formation (Barremian). new characterized by a unique combination characters that suggest they corresp...

We report a new pleurodiran turtle from the Barremian Morro do Chaves Formation, Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, Brazil. We tested the phylogenetic position of Atolchelys lepida gen. et sp. nov. by including it in a comprehensive cladistic analysis of pleurodires. The new species is a basal member of Bothremydidae and simultaneously the oldest unambiguous crown Pleurodira. The biogeographic and chronost...

The non-marine trigonioidid bivalves show five phases of radiation in the Cretaceous of Pal-Asia: pre-Aptian (?Valanginian/Hauterivian-Barremian), Aptian, Albian, Cenomanian and Turonian-Maastrichtian. Their distribution patterns show two distinct palaeo-river systems feeding trigonioidids. Before the Cenomanian, the river system occupied the southwestern-southern-southeastern Pal-Asian contine...