A high-resolution carbonate C-isotope stratigraphy for the Aptian is presented Cau core (Spain). The biostratigraphically calibrated of used to refine previously defined segments Aptian. Thirteen have been identified and correlated, further subdivisions are presented. Correlation with other sections worldwide demonstrates robustness core. studied succession includes a continuous record early Oc...

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...

Abstract. Extensive black shale deposits formed in the Early Cretaceous South Atlantic, supporting notion that this emerging ocean basin was a globally important site of organic carbon burial. The magnitude burial marine basins is known to be controlled by various tectonic, oceanographic, hydrological, and climatic processes acting on different temporal spatial scales, nature relative importanc...

Pseudofrenelopsis and Brachyphyllum are two conifers that were part of the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) taphoflora of the Crato Formation, Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil. The former genus includes, so far, P. capillata and indeterminate species, whilst the latter is mainly represented by B. obesum, the most common plant megafossil recovered from that stratigraphic unit. Here, the stem and leaf...

Negative carbon isotope excursions from a new record of terrestrial organic carbon (dCorg= 2.3x) and from marine carbonate (d13Ccarb= 0.8x) were used to calculate a methane hydrate release of 1137 Gt of carbon over ~1 Myr during the early Aptian (Early Cretaceous). We show how the coincident and sudden near-cessation of subduction along the northern boundaries of the Farallon plate resulted in ...

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...

Brachiopod faunas from the Aptian- Cenomanian Vezk section in southwesternIran comprise ten species in six genera, namely Sellithyris cenomanensis, Sellithyris tornacensis, Sellithyris phaseolina, Phaseolina phaseolina, Tropeothyris sp., Concinnithyris subundata, Kingena arenosa, Cyclothyris difformis, Cyclothyris sp. and Cyclothyris compressa. All species are recorded for the first time from t...

The synlestid damselfly, Cretaphylolestes cretacicus gen. et sp. nov., is described from the Lower Cretaceous Shouchang Formation (lower Aptian) of Zhejiang Province, Eastern China. It oldest Synlestidae, as we exclude Late Jurassic–Early genus Gaurimacia this family. clade Lestiformia currently represented in Mesozoic by two Early genera its stem group, a Perilestidae mid-Cretaceous Burmese am...