A tectonically-controlled forced regression occurred on the western margin of French subalpine basin around Aptian–Albian boundary. It nearly emptied part Vocontian Trough during early and middle Albian. compressional pulse associated with vertical movements along Cevennes fault row its satellites is inferred. This correlated an inverse transgressive trend, both in Paris Basin northern chains. ...

Well preserved nannofossil assemblages in upper Albian and lower Cenomanian hemipelagic sections from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 171B preserve a record of the early history and adaptive radiation of the genus Eiffellithus. Seven distinct taxa are recognized and differentiated, with one previously named taxon (E. monechiae) emended and four new species described: E. praestigium, E. vonsali...

New material of the wasp family Maimetshidae (Apocrita) is presented from four Cretaceous amber deposits - the Neocomian of Lebanon, the Early Albian of Spain, the latest Albian/earliest Cenomanian of France, and the Campanian of Canada. The new record from Canadian Cretaceous amber extends the temporal and paleogeographical range of the family. New material from France is assignable to Guyotem...

Trace fossils provide the only records of Early Cretaceous birds from many parts of the world. The identification of traces from large avian track-makers is made difficult given their overall similarity in size and tridactyly in comparison with traces of small non-avian theropods. Reanalysis of Wupus agilis from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) Jiaguan Formation, one of a small but growing ...

Sampling of six horizons quartz-glauconite sands in Kaniv dislocations Ukraine yielded more than three thousand vertebrate specimens, including elasmobranch teeth, chimaera dental plates, actinopterygian and sauropsid teeth bones. Our study represents the first illustrated detailed description from Ukrainian Albian deposits since Rogovich (1861), whose specimens were still preserved collections...

Atolls are faithful recorders helping us understand eustatic variations, the evolution of carbonate production through time, and changes in magmatic hotspots activity. Several early Cretaceous Mid-Pacific atolls were previously investigated ocean drilling, but due to low quality vintage seismic data available, few spatial constraints exist on their stratigraphic large-scale diagenesis. Here, we...

The purpose of this paper is to characterize the configuration northern Tunisia’s basin during Cretaceous on basis abundant slump folds and frequent synsedimentary faults. are studied determine slumps transport vergence submarine paleoslope. local regional stress field used syn-sedimentary deformation. During Valanginian–Aptian times, characterized by southward slope. From Albian Santonian anal...

Recent evidence for feathers in theropods has led to speculations that the largest tyrannosaurids, including Tyrannosaurus rex, were extensively feathered. We describe fossil integument from Tyrannosaurus and other tyrannosaurids (Albertosaurus, Daspletosaurus, Gorgosaurus and Tarbosaurus), confirming that these large-bodied forms possessed scaly, reptilian-like skin. Body size evolution in tyr...