Isotope data from bulk carbonates, micrite, marine calcite cements, non-skeletal grains and brachiopods indicate deposition of a wide spectrum of warm to cold water carbonates during the Ordovician and the Jurassic. This isotopic interpretation is supported by warm to cold climatic models proposed for the Ordovician and the Jurassic. These carbonates formed during the Greenhouse mode (condition...

Despite increasing claims of pre-Cretaceous angiosperms, whether there really are angiosperms in the Jurassic is apparently still an open question for many people before further evidence is available. This question can only be answered by studying more Jurassic plant fossils. Here we report a fossil angiosperm, Yuhania daohugouensis gen. et sp. nov, from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, C...

The main reservoir in the Dixie Valley geothermal field of Nevada is hosted in fractured Jurassic rocks within the hanging wall of the Stillwater fault. Within the Jurassic sequence, at least four major stages of alteration related to the fault system can be identified. The paragenetic sequence from oldest to youngest consists of Stage I) biotite-potassium feldspar veins, and epidote-chlorite-c...

Nymphites priscus (Weyenbergh, 1869) from the Late Jurassic of Solnhofen (Germany), type species of the genus Nymphites Haase, 1890, is redescribed. The genus is assigned to the Nymphidae. The taxon Nymphitidae is not valid; it is an artificial aggregation of fossil genera. Two species new to science, one named, of Nymphites from the Middle Jurassic locality of Daohugou (Inner Mongolia, China) ...

A Jurassic salamander, Beiyanerpeton jianpingensis (gen. et sp. nov.), from a recently found site in western Liaoning Province, China is the earliest known record of Salamandroidea. As a Late Jurassic record of the group, it extends the range of the clade by ~40 Ma. The Late Jurassic taxon is neotenic and represented by exceptionally preserved specimens, including fully articulated cranial and ...

isotope data from bulk carbonates, micrite, marine calcite cements, non-skeletal grains and brachiopods indicate deposition of a wide spectrum of warm to cold water carbonates during the ordovician and the jurassic. this isotopic interpretation is supported by warm to cold climatic models proposed for the ordovician and the jurassic. these carbonates formed during the greenhouse mode (condition...

The apatite fission track (FT) analysis of Jurassic sandstones from the Beipiao basin in the eastern China indicates a large variation in FT age peaks. The sandstone of the Beipiao Formation has two peak ages at 178.8 and 40.0 Ma, while the sandstone of the Tuchengzi Formation has three age peaks at 152.0, 77.5 and 32.5 Ma. This implies that the provenance of the Beipiao basin in the early Jura...

Stable isotope compositions of a late Jurassic ammonite shell: a record of seasonal surface water temperatures in the southern hemisphere? C. Lécuyer and H. Bucher Laboratory “Paléoenvironnements & Paléobiosphère”, UMR CNRS 5125 , Bâtiment “Geode”, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I et Institut Universitaire de France, 27–43 Boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne, France Paläontologisc...

s Volume, 134 pp.Seibertz, E., Spaeth, C., 2008. Belemnites (Coleoid cephalopods) in Jurassic andCretaceous strata of Mexico: state of the art: II Simposio Geocientífico Internacional Linares, Resúmenes, 204-206. Sellwood, B., Valdes, P., Price, G., 2000, Geological evaluation of multiplegeneral circulation model simulations of Late Jurassic palaeoclimate:Palaeogeography, Palaeo...

The first crane fly (Diptera: Tipuloidea) fossil discovered in the Upper Jurassic Talbragar Fish Bed in Australia is described and illustrated. Eotipula grangeri sp. nov., described from a single specimen, is assigned to the family Limoniidae based primarily on the conformation of wing veins. It is the second and oldest record of Limoniidae from Australia, and the first of Jurassic age from the...